stuck between fc10 and fc11

[kc2dws]

After trying to do a upgrade to fc11 from fc10 it seems i am stuck between them. the grub loader only shows 1 fc11 kernel, but when i try yum update all the updates are fc10, Some libs are so.8 and some are so.7 namely libssl.so.8 and the missing deps are libssl.so.7.

My question is there a way to revert back to fc10 or force install of fc11.

compaq evo n400c
no floppy no cdrom can get usb flash to work.

thanks for any help
kevin

[MikeTbob]

In my opinion the absolute best way to go about this is to do a fresh install and not an upgrade. If you have important files, back them up before going any further.

[kc2dws]

you are right. A new fresh install would be great. With no floppy or cdrom it is not possible to download fc12 and install. if i can not fix the problem the computer is pretty much useless

thank you for your reply

kevin

[oz]

I agree that fresh installs are generally the best way to go. If you don't already do so, you might want to start creating system images of your current systems, then you will be free to experiment all you want with upgrades and fresh installs, then be able to restore your prior system from the images you've created within a few minutes if anything should go wrong.

Some good imaging apps would include Clonezilla, FSArchiver, Ghost4Linux, and PartImage in addition to several others.

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any easy way to revert back to your previous setup without knowing exactly what all changed during the attempted upgrade. If you can get USB flash drives working, you might be able to install using unetbootin, but not sure:

UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads

[MikeTbob]

If you can get to your desktop, try installing unetbootin with yum, then launch unetbootin to install Fedora onto the USB flash drive for now. I think if you have a windows machine, you can install unetbootin there too and use it to install something to the flash drive.