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
