On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:14 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 16:25 -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:17:54PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > > Anyone know how to fix this problem? > > > > I don't know about this specific problem, but you may have to remove > > some packages to do a successful upgrade via yum from FC3 to FC5. > > > > > Are there any good docs (still googling) for updating from fc3 to fc5? > > > > There's these: > > > > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq > > > > I'm going to try this operation myself soon (going from FC4), so please > > write back with your experience. > > > > No luck for me so far. I'm trying to go from fc3 -> fc4 as in the first > doc above. I just have too many deps that fail and every time I try to > remove a package it goes way to deep in removing other packages. > > For example, I have a problem with deps for pkg pythonabi. If I just try > to remove it says it's needed by three other packages. If I try to > remove those as well, they are required by others, all the way down to > yum itself. > > Axel, you suggested doing the upgrade from anaconda. Are you referring > to booting off the CD/DVD and doing the upgrade process? Unfortunately > my system has four HDD and no CD/DVD. I tried hooking up a DVD drive > using a IDE to USB converter, but the system won't boot off of it. The > BIOS does have USB boot enabled, and I have another system that boots > off the same USB DVD, so I don't know why this one won't. > > How about a boot floppy and use anaconda over NFS? How would I get a > boot floppy(s) created for this? You can use your existing bootloader (grub?) to boot the installer and then do an NFS install: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk Paul.
