Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 16:05:00 -0600,
   JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I will wait for fc18 in the hopes it will do a better job of 
>upgrading from 16 to 18.
>The yum route, due to the time it takes to download everything, and 
>the tenuous
>nature of the electric service and the network provider's 
>"instability", seems to
>cause me other issues.

16 to 18 is still going to have the file system layout change. It is likely 
to go even less smooth doing a two release jump instead of just one.

You can use the DVD is a repo when doing a yum upgrade and save on the 
downloading.

If you don't have a lot of custom config, you will probably be better off 
doing a fresh install (after backing up /home) than an update.