Preupgrade to rawhide?

[shmuel siegel]

Adam Pribyl wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to "preupgrade" to rawhide?  I would very much like to
>> test this, since a "normal" installation won't work on my system.  (See
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517556.)
>
> Generaly it is possible. Just choose it preupgrade to display 
> development releases. I tried preupgrade twice and both failed. May be 
> due to some bug in anaconda. But the only way for me remains not 
> recommanded "yum upgrade".
>
Preupgrade hangs for me on an amd 64bit machine as soon as anaconda 
blanks the screen. Better today than two days ago. Now I get a character 
cursur. Yesterday I got a blank screen.