Andy Schlei wrote:
...snip....
Jim Cornette wrote:
Sorry to answer again (or question)
I checked bugzilla for entries against FC4 and test versions before FC4 was
released. I have experienced the problem myself. Anyway, since you want to
upgrade vs. doing a reinstallation, filing a bug report against anaconda.
The saying that it isn't a bug unless someone reports it might be true
here. I should have filed a bug report against it myself. Now that someone
else has seen the problem, it seems more than just something happened at
one point in the development phase.
I still have the disk that contains the LVM installation. It is in FC4test2
condition or whenever yum went down due to sql-lile or something. You have
my curiousity up now.
Regarding other options, you could download and install the fedora release
package from a mirror. This will install the repos and other information
needed for the FC4 release. In /etc/yum.repos.d there will be files for the
repos tagged on the end with rpmnew. These files are what your repos
listings should be changed to. Rename your current .repo files to .repo.old
- rename the fedora.repo.rpmnew files to not include the .rpmnew appending
of name. Then you could try running yum update to get your system up to
FC4. As far as I recall, only a few packages were needed after trying the
installer later on my system. The below packages were upgraded after I did
as mentioned above. Upgrade the fedora-release package and remove the
.rpmnew apending from the repo files.
This is what packages you might be missing out on using the yum method.
Upgrading firefox-1.0.4-4.i386. Upgrading
cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2.i686. Upgrading
dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.2.i686. Upgrading
comps-4-0.20050606.i386.
I'll swap disks to see if the installation on the LVM fails to be
recognized during the install attempt shortly.
When you file a bug report, you might be able to pose your question as to
what the installer uses to detect previous installations.
Jim
Jim
This is very helpful. If I have time later this week I might try to the YUM
approach, and I'll definitely file a bug. I appreciate the help. I really
want to avoid a re-installation (too much time on config files invested and
I'm lazy and don't want to do them again). So the YUM approach looks good.
Thanks,
--Andy
