Well I did it. I upgraded my primary box from FC5 to FC6. I started
the process around 8:15 PM and completed it at 11:45 PM or 3 1/2
hours. I attempted to follow the directions here but things did not work out exactly to plan. The repository listed was not responding so I went to DistroWatch and found the list of mirrors. I chose the http ibiblio.org site and found the RPMS. In GNOME terminal I ran the “rpm -Uhv” command along with the 2 rpm links from ibiblio. That step only took a minute or two. I then ran the “yum -y update” command. That took about an hour and 45 minutes to fetch all the updated files. I wasn’t looking at my screen when it completed but it attempted to start the actual update but crashed. I then opened the GUI Package Manager and it crashed too. I decided to reboot the machine (an old windoze habit when somethings brakes). I then restarted the GUI Package Manager and low-and-behold it started to complete the upgrade to FC6. That ran from about 10:30 PM until 11:45 PM. When it was complete it recommended to reboot which I did. Somewhat surprisingly it then booted right into to FC6 without any noticeable problems (yet). We’ll see…
