RH 8.0 upgrade to Fedora Core 2 - crashes

[James Wilkinson]

Bryan C. Andregg wrote:
> 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.

How much memory does the system have? How much swap space?

James.

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