PreUpgrade help, please - SOLVED

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 12/20/2009 04:21 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>>   Any ideas?
>>
> Last time I tried preupgrade, I made sure to update all of my system as required,
> even uninstalled some things from rpmfusion, etc., just to make sure there would be
> no complications, and then spent a lot of time having preupgrade download all of
> the updates to my entire system.
>
> I always have 2 or 3 installations of fedora on separate partitions on my main hard
> drive (not logical volumes). When I was told to reboot and that the upgrade would
> continue, I rebooted and allowed it to do it's thing. After waiting another hour or
> so, I was told that it was done, and lo and behold... my main system had been
> destroyed, as preupgrade decided to upgrade not the partition from which I had run
> it and which I had indicated to have upgraded, but another partition, the one that
> housed my failsafe system, in case something should go wrong!
>
> As a result, 2 separate installations of fedora on 2 separate partitions had been
> irrevocably destroyed in one fell swoop and I was forced to download the
> installation DVD and reinstall from scratch anyway. The whole procedure cost me at
> least 6-8 hours of wasted time, as well as around 20 GB of wasted downloading that
> I ended up simply deleting and overwriting.
>
> There is a lot to be said for a clean install to a spare partition.


I usually have good luck using yum to upgrade to a new release. Can't 
remember the last time I had any issues.



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