RedHat 7.x upgrade to Fedora. Help!

[Thomas Cameron]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 21:32 -0500, Ken Latham wrote:
> Sort of a newbie (to Fedora anyway).  Please give what I say a little 
> latitude, I can't get details on the messages because in graphical or 
> text mode install I do not get enough time to read them...
> 
> I download, md5 checked and burned the 4 CD set.  FC3-i386-disk[1-4].iso
> I put them through the mediacheck, just to be sure the burns were good 
> and they passed.
> 
> I have no problems (text or graphical) until it starts install.
> It write the install image to disk ok, but when it starts the recording 
> (?) RPM transactions  (something like that).
> I get a fatal error ... and I think it says ... "writing to linuxconf"  
> but its really hard to catch.
> It starts spewing what looks like successful mount messages for all the 
> ext2 partitions it was supposed to convert to ext3.
> Then it fails completely and tells me  I am safe to reboot.
> 
> Apparently the boot load did not get overwritten (even though I chose 
> this) because when I boot I get RedHat 7 telling me the root partition 
> is an unrecognized  format (I assume it is ext3).
> 
> My Linux (RH7) image is now kaput unless I do recovery which I'm hoping 
> to avoid.  In this case, its root which is corrupted.  Given any other 
> circumstances would be bad news,  but since I want to overwrite it with 
> Fedora anyway ...
> 
> Should I choose new install and then carefully choose my partitions to 
> wipe clean?
> 
> Ken

Can you give us a bit more info?  What choices did you make when you did
the install?  Did it find your previous version and offer to upgrade, or
did you choose fresh install?

Thomas