WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4
David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
dave at davenjudy.org
Sat Jul 16 19:05:56 UTC 2005
Not sure what all of the fuss is about. I just had an *absolutely
clean* upgrade from FC3 to FC4. I would consider the box to be somewhat
middle of the road on the generic to exotic scale:
[dave at bend ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
System Controller (rev 20)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE
(rev 04)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 05)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti
200] (rev a3)
02:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] USB
(rev 07)
02:04.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269
(rev 02)
02:05.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W
02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
(rev 78)
but, since its a dualie:
[dave at bend ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2400+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2000.349
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3956.73
processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
...
I'll post a follow-up if I run across anything not working.
Cheers,
Dave
At 1:32 PM +0100 7/16/05, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>Guy Fraser wrote:
>>
>
>
>>>>>> Also consider the possibility that it might make more sense
>>>>>> to keep /home on a separate partition, and leave this alone even if
>>>>>> installing.
>>>
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>
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>>>> That can and does cause problems as well.
>>>>
>>>> Using old configuration files can and does cause lots of
>>>> problems when the software that uses them is updated, that
>>>> includes to user level config files in the home directories.
>>>>
>>>> Unless the update process has a way of updating all the configuration
>>>> files under /home it is better to tar it up and store it
>>>> somewhere. You can restore it in an alternate location and
>>>> move the files that don't exist after the upgrade then use diff
>>>> to determine what needs to changed in with the files that are left.
>>>>
>>>> That is basically what I do when I upgrade a server.
>>
>>
>>
>>You must have lots of spare time on your hands.
>
>
Or maybe he does this to save time. It's only a few extra commands to a
*nix expert (though I'd need time to figure it out): tar, mkdir, tar, and
diff. Should be faster than troubleshooting it instead.
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