upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

[W. Guy Thomas]

W. Guy Thomas wrote:

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> Mike Burger wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>> It's looking good so far. I upgraded yum itself first, then did a 
>>> yum clean all, then moved modules.conf to modules.anacbak (not sure 
>>> why I had to do this but it was recommended), then a yum upgrade...
>>>
>>> It has taken about 3 hours and it appears it grabbed everything 
>>> including the 2.6 kernel.
>>> Running test transaction now.
>>>
>>> Keep your fingers crossed. If I'm lucky ALSA might even work this 
>>> time so I don't have to OSS again and shell out 20 bucks just for 
>>> sound.
>>>
>>> This is a great mailer guys. Thanks for all your helpl.
>>>   
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>> FWIW, you don't have to pay again for OSS.  When I upgraded from RHL9 
>> to FC2, I had to rerun the install/config, but it worked just fine.
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> Well, the interesting thing is. I blew up my original FC1 last night 
> during the attempted upgrade, not sure what happened, but the system 
> was hosed and would only start to boot, then just die.
> So I had to do a fresh FC1 install since I can only use FC1 because of 
> the regular floppy boot disks.
> then start the upgrade process.
> so it's on a fresh hard drive with bare/basic FC1. OSS isn't even 
> installed yet.
>
> downloading all the packages (second attempt) now.
>
> poor little laptop...lol...
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> but with fluxbox on it it really is a nice little ride.
>
> will update soon, should be getting to testing consistencies in a 
> little while...
>
2nd attempt blew up with not enough space.
so I edited yum.conf and pointed only to "base", not "extras"...
going round the 3rd time...
at least in about an hour I can put my daughter to bed and try some 
concentration for a change.

lol

=G