upgrade to shrike from 7.3, results
Wade Chandler
wchandler at redesetgrow.com
Thu Dec 2 17:18:07 UTC 2004
mark wrote:
> After having complete and total failure on the "upgrade" - if anyone's
> paying any attention from RedHat, this is *not* acceptable in a business
> environment, or for desktop users - every single time the python scripts
> with anaconda *failed* with unhandled exceptions, I went on to Plan B.
>
> Attempt 1:
> a) Copy /boot, /, and /home to a new spare drive (the same one
> that the .iso's are on.
> b) Select reinstall system. Skip formatting the filesystems.
> c) Screw around with customizing for a user that, like most,
> *don't* need the kitchen sink. Have it fail a number of
> times with insufficient space, since it can't seem to
> figure out that it's going to overwrite many files. Delete
> lots o' stuff.
> d) Finally get it to install. Shell looks fine. KDE will *not* start,
> and croaks every time. Even though I told it reinstall, it
> apparently didn't reinit the rpm d/b, and did *not* install
> some things, since they conflicted with other, older packages.
>
> Attempt 2:
> a) copy a bit more over to the new drive.
> b) Select reinstall system. Let it format /var (and so wipe
> out the rpm d/b, and /.
> c) Customize packages.
> d) Continue.
>
> Success. Then it was just copy /home back, and create users to use those
> directories, and chown -R on them.
>
> All in all, she's upgraded...but this is a *lousy* way to expect
> barely-computer-literate desktop-oriented users to expect to do an
> upgrade...since it *ain't*, it's an install.
>
> *sigh*
>
> mark "and her network printing is finally working...."
Wasn't Shrike RH9?
Wade
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