Howdy, I've been reading this list for about a week now, trying to decide whether I wanted to upgrade my home system from RH 9 to Fedora Core 1. A couple of days ago I downloaded the ISOs via BitTorrent and burned them onto CDs, and tonight I decided to do the install. Rather than trying to upgrade, I decided to go ahead and do a reinstall. In the past, I've had better luck with complete reinstalls, and all of my essential files were backed up on a separate disk. I booted off of the FC1 disk 1, and ran the disk verification. All of the CDs passed, so I went ahead and selected the graphical installation. First try, it crapped out with the following error messages: --- snip --- error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic (repeated twice) Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait... exec of anaconda failed: Bad address --- snip --- I did some searching around on the fedora-list archives and found another person with the same problem. In their case, running the CD media test on Disk 1, followed by an install from disk 1 fixed the problem. You gotta be kidding me, I thought. However, I tried it out and it worked fine, the graphical boot came up and away I went. This problem is reported in bugzilla as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109438, duped to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109462. According to the defect, the workaround is to enter graphical mode from the Fedora Core 1 install boot using 'linux allowcddma', but I have not tried this. The install went smoothly, and I rebooted and configured my ADSL conection as ppp0, with the provider name 'SWBell'. The connection activated fine when done from redhat-config-network, but would not restart on a reboot or when running /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start. The error message indicated that the 'ifcfg-ppp0' file did not exist. I cd'ed into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and sure enough, there was no ifcfg-ppp0. There was, however, an ifcfg-SWBell. I renamed it to ifcfg-ppp0, ran '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start' and the connction came up fine. This is a known defect, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109411 Not bad, two glitches (although the first almost had me abandoning the upgrade), and things are now running smoothly. Fedora Core 1 seems very nice so far. I especially like using 'yum' for installation of new software and updates. I had never used it before and it's very nice. - Bill /------------------------------------\ / Bill Woodward (wpwood@xxxxxxxxx) \ \ http://www.saifa.net / \------------------------------------/
