Not sure what all of the fuss is about. I just had an *absolutely
clean* upgrade from FC3 to FC4. I would consider the box to be somewhat
middle of the road on the generic to exotic scale:
[dave@bend ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
System Controller (rev 20)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE
(rev 04)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 05)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti
200] (rev a3)
02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB
(rev 07)
02:04.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269
(rev 02)
02:05.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W
02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
(rev 78)
but, since its a dualie:
[dave@bend ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2400+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2000.349
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3956.73
processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
...
I'll post a follow-up if I run across anything not working.
Cheers,
Dave
At 1:32 PM +0100 7/16/05, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Guy Fraser wrote:
Also consider the possibility that it might make more sense
to keep /home on a separate partition, and leave this alone even if
installing.
That can and does cause problems as well.
Using old configuration files can and does cause lots of
problems when the software that uses them is updated, that
includes to user level config files in the home directories.
Unless the update process has a way of updating all the configuration
files under /home it is better to tar it up and store it
somewhere. You can restore it in an alternate location and
move the files that don't exist after the upgrade then use diff
to determine what needs to changed in with the files that are left.
That is basically what I do when I upgrade a server.
You must have lots of spare time on your hands.
Or maybe he does this to save time. It's only a few extra commands to a
*nix expert (though I'd need time to figure it out): tar, mkdir, tar, and
diff. Should be faster than troubleshooting it instead.
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