upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Sat Oct 2 19:01:47 UTC 2004



W. Guy Thomas wrote:

> Oh my goodness, only 1395 packages to complete.
> I guess this will be running overnight.
> It's 1:45pm here and it just finished libgcc, the first package.
>
> zzzzzzzzzzzzz
>
> =G
>
> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
>
>> It's looking good so far. I upgraded yum itself first, then did a yum 
>> clean all, then moved modules.conf to modules.anacbak (not sure why I 
>> had to do this but it was recommended), then a yum upgrade...
>>
>> It has taken about 3 hours and it appears it grabbed everything 
>> including the 2.6 kernel.
>> Running test transaction now.
>>
>> Keep your fingers crossed. If I'm lucky ALSA might even work this 
>> time so I don't have to OSS again and shell out 20 bucks just for sound.
>>
>> This is a great mailer guys. Thanks for all your helpl.
>>
>> =Guy
>>
> Wow, this doesn't look good. It has completely stopped after the first 
> package libgcc. No disk activity, no nic activity.

In you opinion do I let it sit or is my upgrade completely dead and my 
system hosed?
It has been this way for about 20 minutes...

As ever, thanks.

=G




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