[OT] Upgrading from RH73 to FC2

[IMS - Bird, Mike]

On Friday 27 May 2005 02:51 pm, Dave Jones wrote:
> What happens when yum gets to installing udev, and sees it deprecates
> MAKEDEV and friends, and your /dev goes away ?

It works.  Just make sure you're running a 2.6 kernel and have FC3 initscripts 
installed and /sys/ mounted before installing the udev RPM.  However, the 
thread originator is migrating RH7.3->FC2 and shouldn't need to worry about 
udev.

Instead he'll probably need to install (not upgrade) the FC2 db4 so that RPM 
migration works.  He can remove the old db4 after the upgrade.  If he's using 
3c905's he may have to chkconfig kudzu off as FC2 kudzu tended to lock them 
up, which is a pain when your datacenter is a thousand miles away.  If he 
originally configured his network with linuxconf he may have to munge the 
configs in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts before they'll work in FC2.  
Disable IPV6 modules for best performance.  Change /dev/psaux 
to /dev/input/mice if using X.  Move router configs from zebra to quagga.

I also have a note about having to merge dummies on boxes with many IP 
addresses.  Don't recall the details.  Maybe dummy1 stopped working.

I'd advise skipping FC1.  I've upgraded several RH8->FC2 and RH9->FC2 without 
problems.  Wish FC3->U5.04 were as easy.  Never tried RH7.3->FC2.

--Mike Bird