question on upgrading from FC10 to FC11

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz 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
----
wget \
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-*.noarch.rpm
--2009-10-26 12:05:02--
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-*.noarch.rpm
           => `.listing'
Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com... 209.132.176.20, 209.132.176.220,
209.132.176.221
Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|209.132.176.20|:21...
connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==>
CWD /pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> LIST ... done.

    [
<=>                                                                                                       ] 212,681      429K/s   in 0.5s

2009-10-26 12:05:03 (429 KB/s) - `.listing' saved [212681]

Removed `.listing'.
--2009-10-26 12:05:03--
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
           => `fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm'
==> CWD not required.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm ... done.
Length: 22329 (22K)

100%[============================================================================================================>] 22,329      --.-K/s   in 0.1s

2009-10-26 12:05:03 (190 KB/s) - `fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm' saved
[22329]

--2009-10-26 12:05:03--
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm
           => `fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm'
==> CWD not required.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR
fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm ... done.
Length: 8194268 (7.8M)

100%[============================================================================================================>] 8,194,268   2.07M/s   in 4.2s

2009-10-26 12:05:07 (1.85 MB/s) -
`fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm' saved [8194268]

works for me...

Craig


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