> Your problem is that you are using the FC2 repositories. Are you > trying to upgrade to FC2 or FC3? Instead of manually installing > fedora-release-3, I would suggest editing /etc/yum.conf and replace > $releasever with 3. no, I bailed on trying to upgrade via yum..... way to many errors for me to be brave enough to go ahead and destroy the box : ) I'm trying to go back now - to reset yum for FC2. Yum never did install any of the fc3 packages. yum.conf is set up with the standard FC2 config. I appreciate the help...... /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=10 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 [fedora-us-2] name=Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.os [fedora-us-2-updates] name=Fedora Core 2 updates -- Fedora US mirror baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.updates [fedora-us-2-stable] name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable