On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:57:42 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
[....]
> Is this normal?? Have I screwed up royally somehow? I went
> through the directions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading (or so
> I thought). However, rpm -q yum says :
>
> [btth@Hbsk2 ~]$ rpm -q yum yum-3.4.3-31.fc17.noarch [btth@Hbsk2 ~]$
>
> *Note 1* : my #3 PC, which has been running F18 for a couple days
> longer, does get F18 updates, and does reply to rpm -q yum with F18.
*Note 2* Please bear in mind that I am *not* trying to upgrade
these F17 PCs to F18 *with yum*. If I can, I'd like to get them clean
enough to upgrade with Fedup; after all, that did succeed on my first try
(with PC #3). But if I can get my favorite files into a safe harbor, I'm
resigned to do fresh installs somehow.
It has now been a week, or nearly; and at this point I have news
both good and bad. The bad, if you call it news, is that my #1 PC (which
I have not mentioned in this thread before) has been having similar
troubles. The good is that I have managed, I don't know how, to regain
access of sorts to both #1 AND #2. *And* I have an external USB hard
drive with space enough to hold what I want to salvage.
The #2 PC is running on a live DVD, and I can't seem to get it to
access the files on the hard drive, so that I can copy them to the
external one.
The #1 PC managed to boot into FC17, or so it says; I put a live
medium into it, but it took long enough at a Grub prompt to let me pick
an entry other than the default. (I don't know whether that medium is
still doing anything or not.)
So in theory, iiuc, I should be able to copy /home from each of
the problem PCs onto the external drive, do a fresh install on each, and
copy its old files back onto it afterward. Does anyone have a favorite
how-to-do-it page, comprehensible to a subtechnoid, that will guide me
through? My sticking point, oddly enough perhaps, seems to be copying the
files off the PCs, especially off #2.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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