FC2 installation woes....

From: Kevin J. Cummings (cummings_at_kjchome.homeip.net)
Date: 05/20/04

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    (or why I love upgrading! You always learn something new!!!)

    OK, I downloaded FC2 on Monday [!] via the German torrent, burned my CDs
    on Tuesday, did my backups, and then Tuesday afternoon, the fun
    started.... Upgrading from RedHat 9.0.....

    The Fedora installer couldn't find my mouse (Mouse Systems 3 button
    serial/optical). Even after I selected it from the list manually,
    nothing! I had to install a PS/2 mouse in order to get the installer to
    work for me.

    I had to remove the old "cylinder clip" from my 120MB hard drive. I
    forgot that I had enabled the CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE=y option on my old
    motherboard and I was still running the 2.4.20-28.9 kernel. The
    installer couldn't see my 120GB partition table. OK, so I removed the
    clip. That's better.

    Installation proceeds, pretty painlessly now.... (even upgraded from
    lilo to grub). Oh well, it didn't move the hdc=ide-scsi option from
    lilo to the grub.conf. That's easy enough to fix (if I want to burn
    more CDs that is!)

    System reboots. X11 won't start. Complains about parsing errors in my
    XF86Config file. It used to work with XFree86.... OK, so I track them
    down and "fix" them. They were all in unused screen configurations.
    Sigh. I was running the nVidia nforce2 drivers for X11. No go, they
    don't work with FC2. nVidia doesn't have replacements up yet.
    Oh boy, that means my sound and onboard ethernet aren't working too!
    (BTW, X11 runs just fine with my Mouse Systems mouse! and GPM uses the
    PS/2 one. sigh)

    "man" won't run:

            /usr/bin/gtbl: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not
            found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5)

    httpd wasn't running (see above B^)
    Mozilla wouldn't run (Firefox/Firebird would though!) (see above B^)
    Thunderbird wouldn't run either. Sigh!

    Had to Google this one to find out that I had installed a libgcc_s RPM a
    while back for something else. It was version 3.1. I uninstalled it,
    no problems now.

    The new kernel seems to find my ethernet cards "backwards". 8139 PCI
    card is now eth0 and the onboard nForce-2 is now eth1. I need to fix
    /etc/modules.conf. OK, I can modprobe 8139too, and then configure the
    card by hand. That seemed to work. But, wait, what to use for the
    nVidia ethernet? Hmmm, what's this reference in the startup logs to
    forcedeth? Why, look, there's module for it, and it seems to work.
    Both ethernets now up and running (albeit with each other's names....).
      I gotta go fix the configurations so eth0 now uses DHCP and eth1 is
    now hard coded....

    OK, now, I'm back online, and apache is back up and running, I can at
    least surf now. NAT isn't working for the other PCs in the house,
    furthermore, I can't send email (though I can receive it?!?!?!)

    Duh! The interface names changed, so I need to fix my iptables and use
    the correct address (interface) for my DNS!

    So, 24 hours later, I'm up and mostly recovered.

    Just waiting for nVidia to post some FC2 drivers for sound (unless
    anyone else has any better ideas!)

    Oh, yeah, my MB is an ABit NF7 with the nForce-2 chipset on it.... 

    -- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome@rcn.com
cummings@kjchome.homeip.net
cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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