<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz <<a href="mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com">rgm@htt-consult.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Trying to follow instructions at: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq</a> This is a test system, nothing of value on it if the upgrade does not go, but I still want to get this working. For switching the repositories: rpm -Uhv <a href="ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/" target="_blank">ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/</a><ReleaseNumber>/Fedora/<Arch>/os/Packages/fedora-release-*.noarch.rpm ReleaseNumber is 11? and Arch i386? I used those values and got something like (copying this from the test system): Retrieving ftp:.... curl: (78) RETR response: 550 error: skipping ftp:.... - transfer failed -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div> Did you rule out using the preupgrade? (sudo 'yum install preupgrade', and then 'preupgrade') It's really simple, and worked great for me on 3 separate systems. It downloads packages and then runs anaconda after reboot. -- Ron