FC4 installation appears to disappear...?

[Richard England]

Dave Jones wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:02:54PM -0800, Richard England wrote:
> > Toshiba Tecra 9000  W/ FC3.
> > 
> > I attempted an upgrade from FC3 to FC4 using a set of CDs that pass both 
> > the sha1sum and "Media Check". The installation (upgrade) seemed to run 
> > to completion (Graphical install was used), but when I rebooted, I came 
> > up in FC3.
> > 
> > If I try to perform the upgrade again, the only options I am given are 
> > to perform a complete fresh install or  "Upgrade and existing 
> > installation" [Fedora Core 4 (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00) ]  and there is 
> > no indication of the older FC3 version. When I check "/boot", I do not 
> > see any indication of the new kernel.  grub.conf does not contain the 
> > new kernel configuration either. "/root/upgrade.log" has a new date/time 
> > so it is being modified. Checking it only shows that Firefox was updated 
> > but it has a whole boat load of packages that are marked "available 
> > ...but NOT upgraded".  ??!
>
>what does rpm -q kernel say ?
>I think I know whats happened.  You had an FC3+updates installation,
>which installs a 2.6.12 kernel. FC4 shipped with a 2.6.11 based kernel,
>so anaconda sees the higher version number is already installed, and
>skips the install of the FC4 package.
>
>If this is the case, 'yum update' should grab the latest 2.6.14 based
>FC4 update.
>
>		Dave
>
>
>  
>
Dave, you may have nailed it.  I spot checked the versions of some other 
packages and I think they are all later than FC3.  When I get back to my 
wider bandwidth connection, I'll "yum update" and see what happens.  I 
will let everyone know what I find but it may be a few days.

Thanks for the tip.

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