On 12/20/2009 04:21 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > 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. I usually have good luck using yum to upgrade to a new release. Can't remember the last time I had any issues. > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
