Re: problems upgrading from FC6 to F7

I will have to side with Jim on this one. My windblows load is full
of holes and is a spyware target, I cannot use it long without running
spy cleaning crap and getting rid of all kinda crap.

[BTW I keep it around because I am being forced to, due to license
related crap from the CBTNuggets training CDROM I have which is
windows- only (likely my last purchase from them). ]

I only had one thing with LABEL= which IIRC was my / partition. I
did try resizing the partitions, renaming / to /old and creating a new
/ partition. When Fedora came up it has a /old but there is nothing
in it. Also I did the 'rescue' mode thing and when it mounted the OS
under /mnt/sysimage I THEN tried things like recursively copying
/mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab to /etc/ and even copying /mnt/sysimage/etc/
to /etc. Neither option 'stuck' for the reboot, and I am not sure why
they weren't written to disk. Maybe I should've dd'd them there?
Also I monkeyed with rem-ing out certain lines within fstab but that
was unproductive as well.

Next time I'll read the release notes FIRST to see if there is a
'rescue' option or setting to pick up on. In my case I didn't lose
any huge amounts of data or anything too critical, so I just wound up
reinstalling from scratch.

Also fyi I have discovered that basically whether you tell F7 to
install a boot loader, OR whether you choose 'do not install a boot
loader' (pretty straightforward right?) ---it screws with your boot
settings regardless.

Thanks for the help guys.

Marc



On 6/25/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gordon Keehn wrote:
> <RANT>
> Much as I hate the thought of further rewarding Mr. Gates for granting
> me the right to run buggy software on increasingly expensive hardware,
> the one thing I can say about Windows is that it (mostly) "Just works".
> </RANT>
>

You must have a pirated version because my official version is so ridden
with bugs and surprises that is a miracle it ever even boots
successfully. It reboots in cycles, reassigns the boot drive if another
peripheral is installed. Not to mention the Anti-Virus needs to even
surf the Internet.

Oh well, FC does not get things wrong as much as XP seems to in the
computer environment that I use.

Jim

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