Re: FC1/FC2 or RedHat9

From: Richard Emberson (remberson_at_edgedynamics.com)
Date: 06/03/04

  • Next message: M A Young: "RE: Help on Installing Oracle9i Under FC2" 
    Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 07:21:27 -0700
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Paul wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    >
    >>I had redhat 9 and last weekend upgraded (not installed) FC2.
    >>The upgrade failed. If you have a newer system that can boot
    >>from a cdrom, then you will not have the problem I had, but
    >>if yours is an older machine ... do not expect to be able to
    >>upgrade - go to FC2 install.
    >
    >
    > Very odd. I went from RH8 to FC2 on one box at the start of the week. It
    > took a bit longer than a fresh install, but then having done a pile of
    > FC1 to FC2 upgrades, I knew what too look for.
    >
    > Other than the usual problem I've had with sound and xfree86, it went
    > like a dream.
    >
    > For the xfree86, I dropped to single user and did
    >
    > rpm -e xfree86 xfree86-devel
    >
    > This gave a pile of dependancies.
    >
    > rpm -e <all of the xf86 stuff>
    >
    > Rebooted to the install disc and did the upgrade. I then checked to see
    > if /etc/X11/xorg.conf had been created and if it hadn't editted
    > XF86Config so that where it referred to XF86, it now referred to xorg
    >
    > Sound was a bit more of a pain, but really, it was just changing
    > sound-card to snd-card in modprobe.conf
    >
    > HTH
    >
    > TTFN
    >
    > Paul
    >

    I have an old VALinux machine and it does not appear to be able to boot
    from cdrom (well, if completely ignoring the fact that there is a boot
    cd present is failing to boot from a cdrom...).

    I started the upgrade by mounting disc1 and:
    mount /dev/cdrom
    cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install
    cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img
    umount /mnt/cdrom
    and add entry like:
    title Fedora Core 2 Installation
             root (hd0,0)
             kernel /FC2-install
             initrd /FC2-install.img
    (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot)
    to your /etc/grub.conf, then reboot into "Fedora Core 2 Installation".
    During the install choose Hard Disk installation and point the installer
    at the partition with ISOs.

    When I finished the upgrade the /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
    was missing (From the grub gui I dropped into the command mode and
    listed what was in the /boot directory), but /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358
    was there (neither of the FC2-install* files were there).

    So, I am dead in the water. Can not boot from cd, can not boot from
    disc, can not mount cdrom to copy initrd file to /boot directory.

    I only thing I can think of doing now is buying that new system I've
    always wanted, put FC2 on it, mounting old system's disk that contains
    the /boot directory, copying the initrd file to it, put the disk back
    into the old system and then try to boot.

    Sorry for hijacking this thread but Paul is the first responder who
    has stated that upgrading works.

    Richard 

    -- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@redhat.com
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
  • Next message: M A Young: "RE: Help on Installing Oracle9i Under FC2"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: The Microsoft stranglehold on its users....
      ... loadlin to boot up linux manually by hand from DOS. ... LILO had bugs and it was a trap because to uninstall LILO you had to get a successful boot into Linux and uninstall it from the utility. ... The latest Red Hat Workstation Linux just loads everything on your box with little or no choices and then around version 7 they started to include CDROM drivers for the new, not the old CDROM drives. ... And, I tried the trick of using the old Linux install to mount the new OS software CDROM disk, copy the whole disk to a different partition, then run the install and that would not work either. ...
      (sci.research.careers)
    • Re: 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem
      ... i first started fiddling around with linux and debian. ... Reboot and select proper boot device ... I would like to upgrade to 64 bit if ... I used 'apt-get install' to install appropriate kernel ...
      (Debian-User)
    • Re: Cruel Office Situation
      ... USB CDROM, but that's not practical on a dialy basis. ... Install Windows XP on my laptop via USB CDROM. ... Install Ubuntu Linux in last remaining, ... Removing the CDROM and booting up, it puts a boot password right ...
      (comp.os.linux.setup)
    • Re: XP HOME BOOT FAILURE
      ... Boot the system, start tapping F8, when the menu appears, select ... download install and run the application: ... A repair install should bypass that but it will ... >> on, follow the screens. ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility)
    • 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem
      ... So initially i did a clean install by downloading minimum bootable ... Reboot and select proper boot device ... I would like to upgrade to 64 bit if ... So i went back to i386 and decided to upgrad my kernel because 'dmesg' ...
      (Debian-User)