FC1 > FC3

[Thomas]

Don Dupy wrote:

> Has anyone done an upgrade from FC1 > FC3 ?
> I am wanting to upgrade, but I an afraid with FC2 in the middle
> that might not be a good idea.
> Would I be better off backing up everything and doing a fresh install?
>
> thanks
>
Hi Don,
 
I did an upgrade on my notebook (Scenic Mobile 710) from FC1 to FC3. I 
had to change the yum conf files since they have a new structure now. My 
soundchip didnt work anymore, and the program that i used to configure 
it because its and old non pnp soundchip isnt supported anymore 
(sndconfig). So i got errors from my modules conf resulting in a non 
working soundchip. Thats because the is no module for my soundchip to be 
run on the 2.6 kernel series. At least, i couldnt find one.  The 
Touchpad was reidentified at startup by kudzu, and and now it also 
doesnt work well because it seems to use a new driver. In the Past, i 
used to make backups from my FC1 / partitioon (ext3) by booting into 
windows and using DriveImage 2002 (its fast, easy and generates good 
compresseion). After upgrade to FC3, DriveImage 2002 as well as 
PartitionMagic8 doesnt recognize the ext3 / partition any more. I 
reloaded a FC1 Backup, and DriveImage is happy again. I tried that on 
anohter machine, same issue, no DriveImageing after upgrade to FC3 on 
ext3 (the partition type didnt change!). I  had to reinstall some  
broken unofficial packages, but that was to expect. I found it most 
frustrating that my soundchip (ess1878) doesnt work with fc3 while it 
does fine on fc1, and worse, that there is no proggie for legacy 
soundcards like sndconfig anymore. Now im back to FC1.

Greetings,
Thomas