On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 08:16 -0400, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > William Murray wrote: > > > I am trying to update FC6 to F7 on an old i386 box. 1GHz, > 256Meg. > > Anyway, the F6 are not found if I use the F7 upgrade disk. It whirs > > and offers to install a new system, no upgrade option. > > SO I would like to do a yum upgrade. But I found Dave Jones' > piece: > > http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/72836.html > > saying don't risk it. > > Before I saw that I had tried - but it did not work - unsatisfied > > dependencies, e.g. gaim needs old python, and yum did not seem to be > > swapping gaim for pigeon. This is just one example of many. > > I can't help, but I've noticed that F7 is really bad > at finding FC6 versions. > In my case, it did find them but specified random partitions, > eg /dev/sda4, which did not correspond to anything. > > By the way, did you change /etc/fstab to use labels > rather than eg /dev/hda3? No, I didn't use labels. Oops, thanks - I see in the release notes now. I'll chase that. Bill -- __________________________________________________________ Bill Murray w.j.murray@xxxxxxxx (44)-1235-446256
