F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

[Dave Cross]

I've been trying to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 and
it hasn't been going well.

First I tried to use FedUp. FedUp downloaded all of the files it
required. I rebooted and selected the upgrade option. I got the
progress meter, but after only about thirty seconds the system
rebooted and I was left with the same grub options as before the
upgrade. No option to boot into Fedora 18 and no option to retry the
upgrade.

I booted into Fedora 17 and tried again with very similar results.
However I've since noticed that something has changed as when I now
run a "yum update" it tries to update over 2,000 RPMs to the Fedora 18
versions. This seems to go into an infinite loop of dependency
resolution - so I killed it.

I then decided that I'd download an installation DVD and try to
upgrade from that. I burnt a DVD and the media test completed
successfully, but I'm only offered the option to install Fedora, not
to upgrade my existing installation.

That's not such a problem. I have my /home directory on a separate
partition, so what I've done before is to reinstall from scratch and
reuse the /home partition (so I keep all of my data). But the new
Anaconda partitioning UI is confusing me and I can't work out how to
tell it to reuse the /home partition but reformat all the other Linux
partitions and use them for the new installation.

So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that
thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I
suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing
installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to
reuse the /home partition.

Can anyone suggest a way forward for me?

Thanks,

Dave...

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