Re: FC6 to Rawhide via repo switch

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 14:19:06 -0500,
  Paul Michael Reilly <pmr pajato com> wrote:
> I recently got my system wedged without having good notes about what 
> happened.  So I figured that the simplest path to getting back to a 
> running Rawhide was to install minimally FC6 and change the repos to 
> select development (should extras development be enabled?) and then do 
> an update.  I did that and midway through the 1000+ package update the 
> system rebooted leaving me scratching my head wondering if I should 
> distrust this approach or just reboot and try again with another update 
> and hope for the best.  I did the latter and have been beset by weird 
> behavior ever since.  Like checkbox buttons not echoing properly on GUIs 
> and non elf format conflicts in some bin programs and libraries.

If you have a high speed network connection, you are probably better off
booting from the rawhide boot iso and doing a network install. (Unless
you specifically want to test upgrading.)