preupgrade f7-> f9 error

[Javier Perez]

2008/5/26 mantra UNIX <unix.mantra at gmail.com>:

> I get the following error while performing the preupgrade from f7 to f9,
> did any one else get this and maneuvered it ;-)
>
> # preupgrade-cli "Fedora 9 (Sulphur)"
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/oserror was
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: anaconda-upgrade-install
>
>
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FWIIW, I just went though the yum upgrade  route.
1. Update everything
2. clean yum
3. download the repositories rpms and install them
4. review /etc/yum/repos.d
5. update all, take out confilicting packages, do (5) again.
6. Profit! :)

Fedora has a doc on this together with the Release notes

JP


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