FC2 installation woes....

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 22:35, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>(or why I love upgrading!  You always learn something new!!!)
>
>OK, I downloaded FC2 on Monday [!] via the German torrent, burned my
> CDs on Tuesday, did my backups, and then Tuesday afternoon, the fun
> started....  Upgrading from RedHat 9.0.....
>
>The Fedora installer couldn't find my mouse (Mouse Systems 3 button
>serial/optical).  Even after I selected it from the list manually,
>nothing!  I had to install a PS/2 mouse in order to get the
> installer to work for me.
>
>I had to remove the old "cylinder clip" from my 120MB hard drive.  I
>forgot that I had enabled the CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE=y option on my
> old motherboard and I was still running the 2.4.20-28.9 kernel. 
> The installer couldn't see my 120GB partition table.  OK, so I
> removed the clip.  That's better.
>
>Installation proceeds, pretty painlessly now.... (even upgraded from
>lilo to grub).  Oh well, it didn't move the hdc=ide-scsi option from
>lilo to the grub.conf.  That's easy enough to fix (if I want to burn
>more CDs that is!)

Thats miss-information that really shouldn't be spread.  I've just 
burnt 6 cd's in the last day using /dev/hdc against a 2.6.6-mm3 
kernel installed on an FC1 box.

ide-scsi may, or may not be broken for a 2.6 kernel, depending on the 
chipset, your favorite brand of chew or some such phase of the moon.  
Its also deprecated, use your regular ide address for the atapi 
burner please.

You may have to update your cdrtools so it will support the atapi 
drives directly though, and please take a look at k3b-11.1 or later, 
its todays killer burner app.

>System reboots.  X11 won't start.  Complains about parsing errors in
> my XF86Config file.  It used to work with XFree86....  OK, so I
> track them down and "fix" them.  They were all in unused screen
> configurations. Sigh.  I was running the nVidia nforce2 drivers for
> X11.  No go, they don't work with FC2.  nVidia doesn't have
> replacements up yet. Oh boy, that means my sound and onboard
> ethernet aren't working too! (BTW, X11 runs just fine with my Mouse
> Systems mouse! and GPM uses the PS/2 one.  sigh)
>
>"man" won't run:
>
>	/usr/bin/gtbl: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not
>	found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5)
>
>httpd wasn't running (see above B^)
>Mozilla wouldn't run (Firefox/Firebird would though!)  (see above
> B^) Thunderbird wouldn't run either.  Sigh!
>
>Had to Google this one to find out that I had installed a libgcc_s
> RPM a while back for something else.  It was version 3.1.  I
> uninstalled it, no problems now.
>
>The new kernel seems to find my ethernet cards "backwards".  8139
> PCI card is now eth0 and the onboard nForce-2 is now eth1.  I need
> to fix /etc/modules.conf.  OK, I can modprobe 8139too, and then
> configure the card by hand.  That seemed to work.  But, wait, what
> to use for the nVidia ethernet?  Hmmm, what's this reference in the
> startup logs to forcedeth?  Why, look, there's module for it, and
> it seems to work. Both ethernets now up and running (albeit with
> each other's names....). I gotta go fix the configurations so eth0
> now uses DHCP and eth1 is now hard coded....
>
>OK, now, I'm back online, and apache is back up and running, I can
> at least surf now.  NAT isn't working for the other PCs in the
> house, furthermore, I can't send email (though I can receive
> it?!?!?!)
>
>Duh!  The interface names changed, so I need to fix my iptables and
> use the correct address (interface) for my DNS!
>
>So, 24 hours later, I'm up and mostly recovered.
>
>Just waiting for nVidia to post some FC2 drivers for sound (unless
>anyone else has any better ideas!)
>
>Oh, yeah, my MB is an ABit NF7 with the nForce-2 chipset on it....
>
>--
>Kevin J. Cummings
>kjchome at rcn.com
>cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
>cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us

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