FC2 to FC3 or FC4 upgrade

[Graeme Nichols]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>FYI all - I have been unable to move forward with this due to none of
>the CD passing the media test portion of the install. CD #1 boots fine
>and is happy to start the install if I let it, but the CDs themselves
>all fail the test media option I'm given at the beginning of the
>install.
>
>I'm currently researching other ways to burn the CDs. I normally use
>k3b to do this. I'm sure it can be done at the command line also.
>
>Cheers,
>Mark
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The problem is not in the CDs you burnt (assuming you burnt them 
correctly :-)

The problem is with the media check routine!! The Fedora people saw fit 
to leave the faulty media check routine from FC3 as is without fixing 
it. :-(

If you still have access to an FC2 machine run the media check on it.

Good luck.

>On 7/8/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
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>>Mark Knecht wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>   I wonder what experience people here have with upgrading an FC2 box
>>>to newer FCx revisions. Is this something that can, in general, be
>>>safely accomplished using the FCx install CDs? What tricks do I need
>>>to know about to do an upgrade? Frankly I've never done one but rather
>>>have always done complete installs from scratch. I'm tired of doing
>>>that and just want a clean, simple, plug in the disk and one hour
>>>later it works like it always has but it's a new release.
>>>      
>>>
>>Generally, FC2 to FC3 or FC4 should be fairly painless, however going
>>from something earlier (FC1, RH9, RH8.0, etc.) can cause grief since
>>you'd be going from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel.  You may also run
>>into gcc problems (v2.96 vs. v3.x), glibc issues and others.  So,
>>old 2.4-kernel systems should use fresh installs of FC2/3/4.
>>
>>Also beware that acpi/apms handling is RADICALLY different between FC2
>>and FC3.  If your machine doesn't boot after the upgrade, add "acpi=off"
>>to the boot command line.  It appears that the 2.6 kernel also handles
>>broken BIOS APIC setups better, so the need for "noapic" on SMP kernels
>>for AMD machines isn't as necessary as it was.
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Kind regards,

Graeme.
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