FC3->FC4 upgrade hangs whilst installing kernel-smp package
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 14 17:37:00 UTC 2005
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I'm upgrading my test system from FC3 to FC4.
> Because I don't have a working CD drive at the moment, I'm installer
> from disk, using a /boot/installer directory with the vmlinuz and
> initrd from disc1.iso placed there, and a GRUB entry pointing to it.
Does the grub entry have "ramdisk_size=8192" on the "kernel" line?
> This works up to a point - but I don't get a chance to run mediacheck
> (can I use a boot option in the grub.conf file to invoke this?).
Add "mediacheck" to the end of the "kernel" line in grub.
> although the SHA1SUM checks pass on the iso images.
>
> Each time the install hangs whilst installing the package:
>
> kernel-smp-2.6.1-1.etc.
You might want to try removing the SMP kernel (and any old kernels)
before doing the upgrade and then adding in the SMP kernel again
post-installation.
One issue I noticed whilst upgrading was that an inordinately large
amount of free space was required in /usr (nearly 2G on my test
machine). I believe this is mainly due to the package name change in
openoffice.org; doing a "yum remove openoffice.org" before the upgrade
allowed the upgrade to proceed, and I was then able to install the new
openoffice packages using yum after booting into FC4.
Paul.
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