RH 8.0 upgrade to Fedora Core 2 - crashes

[Bryan C. Andregg]

I am attempting to upgrade a Red Hat 8.0 system to Fedora Core 2 using 
the install CD images from the website. The current system is a stock 
install with most updates (until 8.0 was EOL'd) and very little or no 
custom software or third party software installed.

During the upgrade everything works until the installer displays 
"Preparing RPM Transaction" at which point the installer terminates and 
the system shuts down. The upgrade log has plenty of detail about 
upgrading dependancies followed by packages to be upgraded and ends 
with:

The following packages were available in this version but NOT upgraded:
Upgrading comps-8.0-0.20020910.

The only other errors in the upgrade log all look like:

OMF file [/usr/share/omf/glade/turbo-start-C.omf] does not validate 
against Scro
llKeeper-OMF DTD: /usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd

Does anyone know why the installer is crashing and/or how to prevent 
that from happening?

Cheers,
-- 
Bryan C. Andregg
<bandregg at loopback.net>