question on upgrading from FC10 to FC11

[Robert Moskowitz]

Ron Siven wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com 
> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:
>
>     Trying to follow instructions at:
>
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
>     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
>     ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/<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
>
>
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>
> 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. 

Did not see anything about preupgrade on the wiki, I was jsut following 
orders  :)

So I tried the install of preupgrade and found it already on the 
system.  So now it is running....

thanks