Took the plunge
Bill Woodward
wpwood at saifa.net
Sat Nov 22 04:19:39 UTC 2003
Howdy,
I've been reading this list for about a week now, trying to decide whether
I wanted to upgrade my home system from RH 9 to Fedora Core 1. A couple
of days ago I downloaded the ISOs via BitTorrent and burned them onto CDs,
and tonight I decided to do the install.
Rather than trying to upgrade, I decided to go ahead and do a reinstall.
In the past, I've had better luck with complete reinstalls, and all of my
essential files were backed up on a separate disk. I booted off of the
FC1 disk 1, and ran the disk verification. All of the CDs passed, so I
went ahead and selected the graphical installation.
First try, it crapped out with the following error messages:
--- snip ---
error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic (repeated twice)
Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait...
exec of anaconda failed: Bad address
--- snip ---
I did some searching around on the fedora-list archives and found another
person with the same problem. In their case, running the CD media test on
Disk 1, followed by an install from disk 1 fixed the problem. You gotta
be kidding me, I thought. However, I tried it out and it worked fine, the
graphical boot came up and away I went.
This problem is reported in bugzilla as
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109438, duped to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109462. According to
the defect, the workaround is to enter graphical mode from the Fedora Core
1 install boot using 'linux allowcddma', but I have not tried this.
The install went smoothly, and I rebooted and configured my ADSL conection
as ppp0, with the provider name 'SWBell'. The connection activated fine
when done from redhat-config-network, but would not restart on a reboot or
when running /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start. The error message indicated
that the 'ifcfg-ppp0' file did not exist. I cd'ed into
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and sure enough, there was no ifcfg-ppp0.
There was, however, an ifcfg-SWBell. I renamed it to ifcfg-ppp0, ran
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start' and the connction came up fine. This is
a known defect, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109411
Not bad, two glitches (although the first almost had me abandoning the
upgrade), and things are now running smoothly. Fedora Core 1 seems very
nice so far. I especially like using 'yum' for installation of new
software and updates. I had never used it before and it's very nice.
- Bill
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