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.
