Am 08.09.2012 19:38, schrieb Heinz Diehl: > On 08.09.2012, JD wrote: > >> It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be upgraded, >> and I click next. > [....] > > Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously. > Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of > time and hairpull. the yum upgrade as described works perfectly not all users have plain setups where you can easily do a fresh install, this works not well if you have customiized many configurations of many services and that is why a distribution with a new release each month should be much carefuller in context of upgrades than fedora does
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