Question: How to upgrade to Fedora 17?
Answer:
1-Don’t forget to backup your system before to start.
2-Upgrading To Fedora 17
As root enter the following commands:
rpm –import https://fedoraproject.org/static/1ACA3465.txt
# sudo yum update dracut
# dracut --force --add convertfs
Change the following kernel commandline parameter directly
in
the bootloader menu,
which
is sh:own during bootup, or edit the line
in
/etc/grub
*.cfg to remove ro and rhgb and append rw rd.
in
:fo rd.convertfs enforcing=0
# revert after reboot.
# dmesg | grep dracut
# yum --releasever=17 update rpm
# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
# rpm --rebuilddb
# yum --releasever=17 --disableplugin=presto --skip-broken distro-sync
# fixfiles onboot
Please keep Us updated if this working for you , because we still getiing comments from people that upgrading via preupgrad in not working anymore
