Today William John Murray did spake thusly:
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
Out of interest, a) how do I relabel a drive? And b) after labelling them
will I still need to use the installer to upgrade or can I upgrade using
yum? My server has 4x IDE connectors and 4x drives in those connectors and
no CD/DVD drive so it'd be hassle to upgrade if I can only do it using a
CD/DVD...
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