upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

[W. Guy Thomas]

W. Guy Thomas wrote:

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> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>> Mike Burger wrote:
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>>>> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>>>> 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...
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>>>>> It has taken about 3 hours and it appears it grabbed everything 
>>>>> including the 2.6 kernel.
>>>>> Running test transaction now.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> FWIW, you don't have to pay again for OSS.  When I upgraded from 
>>>> RHL9 to FC2, I had to rerun the install/config, but it worked just 
>>>> fine.
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>>> Well, the interesting thing is. I blew up my original FC1 last night 
>>> during the attempted upgrade, not sure what happened, but the system 
>>> was hosed and would only start to boot, then just die.
>>> So I had to do a fresh FC1 install since I can only use FC1 because 
>>> of the regular floppy boot disks.
>>> then start the upgrade process.
>>> so it's on a fresh hard drive with bare/basic FC1. OSS isn't even 
>>> installed yet.
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>>> downloading all the packages (second attempt) now.
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>>> poor little laptop...lol...
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>>> but with fluxbox on it it really is a nice little ride.
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>>> will update soon, should be getting to testing consistencies in a 
>>> little while...
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>> 2nd attempt blew up with not enough space.
>> so I edited yum.conf and pointed only to "base", not "extras"...
>> going round the 3rd time...
>> at least in about an hour I can put my daughter to bed and try some 
>> concentration for a change.
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>> lol
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>> =G
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> I meant "updated", not "extras"
> Man I hope this works, I miss my linux box.
> This XP crap is so boring.
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> The wireless router is up though. And the wife's laptop screams at 54g 
> wireless. Cool.
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> ok, I'll stop updating the mailer. just needed a bit of feedback.
> take care.
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> =G
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well, it died again with a drive space issue.

here's a new question but I'm keeping it in this thread since it's ongoing.

I have a USB cdrom drive. I know Fedora will recognize it. But how do I 
tell  Fedora to boot from this device?
When I boot now it just goes to FC1, but I need to tell grub to boot to 
the cd.

It's hooked up live on the USB port.

This should be the fix. But how?

Thanks guys.

=G