preupgrade fc10 to fc11

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:45 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> I used preupgrade to upgrade my fc10 64 bit system to fc11. The bottom 
> line is that it worked. But I have a question and some observations.
> 
> Is this the equivalent of an anaconda update. If it is, than this is 
> confirmation of anaconda for my environment.
> 
> There were a few minor annoyances in the process.
>     1) The screen went black because of inactivity - a little bit scary 
> for an install process

There's a bug report for this already, I believe.

>     2) After installing all of the packages, the machine started 
> "finishing" the process for many minutes. It would be nice to have some 
> idea of what is happening or some idea of progress. For all that I could 
> tell, it was in an infinite loop.
>     3) Still too many fc10 holdovers

These aren't important enough to do anything about now. Everything that
could be rebuilt for f11 was, anything left is something that actually
could not be rebuilt for some reason.

> For some reason, on rebooting it didn't automount my ntfs partitions (or 
> at least they didn't show up on the desktop) but it did let me mount 
> them by drilling down from the Computer icon. This functionality seems 
> to change rapidly, after some updates it automounts, after some it 
> doesn't. What is the ultimate planned functionality?

Don't know about this...
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