My next attempt at an upgrade was a manual upgrade through YUM. I found another tutorial, also on the FedoraProject website, that seemed to give me all the information I would need. I went on through the steps of the upgrade only to find even more problems than I had with the first method. First, I had issues with curl retrieving the new rpms through cURL. Once I installed them manually, I began the upgrade, watching each of the 1100 or so packages begin downloading for installation. I watched as each package started out at around 400kB/s, then started slowing down until I was receiving less the 10B/s (that's not a typo, less that ten bytes per second). After 30 minutes passed and I had only downloaded about 20 packages, I decided to try to tweak my network settings. Once figuring out the issues there, I continued. As if I hadn't struggled enough already, YUM errored out several times due to package duplication issues between the FC12 and FC13 repositories.

Needless to say, I was ecstatic when Fedora 13 in all its glory loaded on my system. That was short-lived though, as when I finally logged in, I was greeted by an error stating that metacity had crashed. I honestly don't remember how I fixed that, or even if it is fixed at all. All I know is that when Fedora 14 comes out, I'll be doing a fresh install. I would like to note that my office-mate, for whom the upgrade worked seamlessly, was instrumental in helping me fight through my upgrade woes, and is still enjoying a flawless experience with his upgraded system.