Problem in upgrading to Fedora 11

[Suvayu Ali]

Hello Jayakrishnan,

On Thursday 06 August 2009 01:41 AM, Jayakrishnan M wrote:
> Sorry for a long mail.
> I am trying to upgrade a Fedora 10 installation to Fedora 11 using yum.
> I am following the instructions given here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
> But when I try to install the fedora-release rpm, it gives the error
>
> [root at jk ~]# rpm -Uvh fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
> warning: fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256
> signature: NOKEY, key ID d22e77f2
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>     1:fedora-release         ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /etc/fedora-release;4a7a982b: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
>

I believe you are having a problem because of this.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/StrongerHashes

If you have a separate /home I would say installing from the DVD is a 
better option rather than go through all this hassle. If you prefer you 
can also try network installation.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html-single/#s1-steps-network-installs-x86

GL
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Suvayu

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