Fedora Core 2 upgrade FAILURE

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Richard Emberson
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases; fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 upgrade FAILURE
> 
> SUCCESS (see below)
> 
> 
> Richard Emberson wrote:
> > I have an older machine that can not boot from cdrom. Also, I had
> > some user data in one of the accounts.
> >
> > So I mounted disc1, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot, unmounted
> > disc1, added entry to /etc/grub.conf, then rebooted:
> >
> > mount /dev/cdrom
> > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install
> > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img
> > umount /mnt/cdrom
> > and add entry like:
> > title Fedora Core 2 Installation
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /FC2-install
> >         initrd /FC2-install.img
> > to /etc/grub.conf (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot)
> >
> > Everything was going along fine; I did an upgrade (not install) and
> > after 1 1/2 hours it said that the installation was a success and that
> > I should click the reboot button ... which I did.
> >
> > Well, reboot started out ok, there was a single boot option on the
> > grub boot page, but then it asked me to insert disc1. I did so
> > and it then asked me if I wanted to upgrade or install.
> >
> > hmmm.....
> >
> > I selected upgrade and it proceeded to "upgrade" a php rpm from disc1
> > and compat-db rpm from disc3 and announced that the installation was
> > successful and that I should click on the reboot button.
> >
> > Ok, reboot started and then once again it requested that I insert disc1
> > and once again it installed the same two rpm's, php from disc1 and
> > compat-db from disc3 and announced that the installation was a success.
> >
> > I tried one more time with the same result.
> >
> > So how do I break out of this? I really dont care about either
> > php or compat-db, I'd like to somehow bypass installing them and
> > get on with the boot. Are there parameters one can give at the grub
> > command line to force a kernel load?
> >
> > Help! Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks to the many replies.
> 
> What I ended up doing ....
> 
> My original system had two scsi disks: disk1 with /boot and /
> and the other, disk2, with /home and /usr/local and I did not want to
> lose /home and /usr/local - which is why I wanted to upgrade,
> not install.
> 
> So I bought a new scsi (I do plan to build a new machine at home
> some time this Summer, so its not as extreme as one might think)
> using it to replace disk2
> and did a redhat 9.0 on my old machine.
> I then mounted FC2 disc1 and copied vmlinux and initrd as described
> above. I then via grub booted using the FC2 code and did a full
> install. It worked. Now I can just replace the new disk2 with the
> old and the upgrade is complete.
> 
> IMPORTANT: the first time I did this - yes I did this twice - I
> for some unknown reason had disk1 contain /boot and /usr while
> the new disk2 had / - the redhat 9 install succeeded this succeeded but
> not the subsequent FC2 install!! - so the second time I had disk1
> contain /boot and / while the new disk2 had /home and /usr/local and
> for this combination FC2 install (after installing redhat 9 a
> second time) worked.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
maybe I'm missing something here, but I believe that you can download the
iso's to your hard drive and mount them and install.  Maybe I'm wrong but
that would seem to have been a lot simpler.  If this worked for you though
great.