update to F11 with yum
David
dgboles at comcast.net
Tue Jun 2 01:19:31 UTC 2009
On 6/1/2009 9:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote:
>> On 6/1/2009 6:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote:
>>>> On 6/1/2009 3:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Where did you 'get' the preupgrade.
>>> F8 repo via yumex.
>> Ok. You had an install of Fedora 8 and you tried/wanted to upgrade to
>> Fedora 10? Correct?
>
> Its been running F8 for over a year, just not recently powered up. There were
> 50 packages which took several hours to get and install, then I rebooted and
> installed preupgrade from the F8 repos. So its been running F8 for about 20
> months when it was running. I had installed it fresh a week before I took off
> to go say goodby to my daughter Barbara in late fall of 2007.
>
> And yes, what I really wanted was an upgrade to F10. Now its at rawhide, and
> I have no keyboard or mouse when in x so ATM I'm wandering around in a few
> tty's.
>
>> It will have to wait until the weekend but Ill d/l Fedora 8 and try this.
>> --
>
> TYhanks David but don't worry about it, its done, its broken, and now it must
> be fixed asap cuz I'll need it for the Michigan trip in addition to running
> fmit.
>
> And I'll need it 100% functional before the end of the week, this MI job MUST
> be done by midnight June 11. That part is not even open for discussion. FCC
> mandate.
Sorry for your troubles. Might I suggest a Live-CD install of Fedora 10.
That only takes a few minutes.
--
David
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