question on upgrading from FC10 to FC11

[Robert Moskowitz]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 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.... 

And I do not have enough disk space in my /var partition....

GRRR now what?  This is a EeePC with a rather small drive.  Install, not 
upgrade time?