upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 problems

[Jim Cornette]

Just to note some problems encountered when trying to upgrade an FC6 
installation on a disk that I found lying around. The installer crashed 
with an exception because of some glibc requirement it was trying to 
satisfy. Previously I passed the error by upgrading the fedora-release 
packages and then upgrading the glibc package. This worked out after 
removing a few packages like k3b, openoffice and reinstalling them again 
after the upgrade. The current installation is pretty much an everything 
install. This installation has a slew of problems with trying to upgrade 
packages via yum.

Anyway, I had an additional problem with the SIS video only coming up 
with a scrambled raster which was the wrong frequency for the monitor. I 
then tried the text installer instead when I had the exception related 
to glibc.

Since there are so many problems with upgrades due to missing packages 
and programs that reference files or added features to the distro, why 
are upgrades not possible with the installer while booted into a working 
system? I believe it would be more sane than performing an upgrade 
within the installer. I mean you are upgrading, a GUI version of the 
installer is pretty useless. You pick the system and choose a few 
options, everything else is not a choice during upgrade.

Jim