F7 to F8: no joy =/

[André Costa]

Hi David,

On Nov 14, 2007 10:02 AM, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Antonio wrote:
> > 2007/11/14, André Costa <blueser at gmail.com>:
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> > I think that as soon as anaconda problem is solved, DVD should be
> > re-issued. I am waiting that before wiping out one of my server, for a
> > clean install
> > Luckily I had other computer upgraded by switching from F7 to
> > development repos and finally to F8. I am following same procedure for
> > F9, development repos is already enabled on one of my computer
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> If what you are calling "my server" is really a server you should be
> running something stable and long lived like CentOS on it anyway and not
> a fast-track distribution such as Fedora.
>
> If you are waiting for Fedora to 'fix' anaconda and release another
> Fedora 8 DVD I think that you will have a long wait. Fedora has never
> released a second DVD that I know of anyway.
>
> Various people have had problems with this update path for various
> reasons. And some here have offered help and advice. But I do not recall
> anyone mentioning writing a bugzilla ticket. That would be the way to
> get better results. Better than posting about it on a general user help
> list. One that most developers don't follow.

Hey, I said I would file a bug report! =) As a matter of fact, I was
on the way to do it when I found someone already did it:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011

And apparently there's even a workaround that solved the problem for
some people (but, unfortunately, not all):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011#c28

I am at work now, will try this ASAP and post back here (and at bug
372011) my results.

> I really have no idea just how many have had problems such as this. Nor
> do I have any idea how many did not have problems such as this. Those
> without problems seldom post success stories. But I would be willing to
> bet that there have been many more successes than failures.  ;-)

Judging from the bug report posted above, and to the bugs marked as
duplicates, quite some people got bitten by this. Still, I agree that
success count should be higher -- but it doesn't "ease the pain" of
being one of the unfortunate ones =(

Regards,

Andre