Upgrades from RHL XXX to FC1

[risc]

Any chance we could ask on the channel to see how people went with upgrades between distros? So we could have a section saying

RHL9 -> FC1

And a list of problems people had, or didn't have etc.

Same for 8 and 7.3 maybe?

Cheers!

[foolish]

Openoffice 1.0 and 1.1 configuration isn't compatible, you must delete the .openoffice dir in each users homedir and then start openoffice 1.1 to make it work.
Thats: rm -r ~/.openoffice


Yum isn't installed unless you had it before you upgraded.
To get yum do: up2date yum


Graphical boot isn't enabled by default after an upgrade, to enable graphical boot install the rhgb package:
$ up2date rhgb
And then open up /etc/grub.conf in a text editor like gedit and add "rhgb" to the kernel line:
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img

[Yusaku]

RHL7.3 -> FC1

did it few hours ago, all seems ok :)

[str]

RHL7.3 -> FC1
did it few hours ago, all seems ok :)

how did u did this?
I mean, did u burn an FC1 iso?

what i need is to install FC in a remote server, i mean, i cannot burn a CD, pay $400 for the fly to the server....

I would like to upgrade my apache1 to apache2, and it was imposible with RH7.3 would it be posible with Fedora?

if it is posible how do i change my remote serverfrom rh7.3 to fedora??

[Yusaku]

RHL7.3 -> FC1
did it few hours ago, all seems ok :)

how did u did this?
I mean, did u burn an FC1 iso?

what i need is to install FC in a remote server, i mean, i cannot burn a CD, pay $400 for the fly to the server....

I would like to upgrade my apache1 to apache2, and it was imposible with RH7.3 would it be posible with Fedora?

if it is posible how do i change my remote serverfrom rh7.3 to fedora??

I did it phisically, booted with FC1 cd and upgraded, i don't know if theres' a way to do it remotely but i think not, the only machine i upgraded remotely is a virtual one under vmware.

[wasteoflife]

I've just completed upgrading my RH9 to FC1 with yum. Here is how:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html

It took me about 12 hours on a cable modem - looks like fedora.redhat.com repository is limiting bandwidth usage. So far looks ok. Two minor issues so far:
(1) All icons on my customized gnome drawer panels became disabled. Icons on the main panel work fine.
(2) MySQL daemon refuses to start. Investigating...

Good luck.

[miniz]

I've also completed upgrading RH9 to FC1, on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 server, using FC1 CDs (burnt from ISOs).

I encountered and solved the disk space eror described in http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#IntelD845 . I used 'linux allowcddma' to solve this problem. FYI, the motherboard chipset is ServerWorks GC-LE chipset and is not listed in the FAQ. Hope the FAQ will add this one.

Here's the steps:

1) boot from FC1 CD1
2) type 'linux allowcddma'
3) follow on-screen instruction
4) when asked, choose to upgrade linux instead of fresh install
5) when asked, choose to update boot loader
6) reboot to FC1 :D

Good luck!


Notes:
1) the Boot GUI (rhgb) is not installed, so the boot process is all text based
2) yum and apt is also not installed. yum is installed when doing fresh install.
3) RH9 2.4.20 kernels are all removed from /boot. My /boot only has fedora's 2.4.22 kernel after the upgrade.