Hi,
So, after about five nights worth of 56K mirror and rsync spread over a
couple weeks, I finally managed to burn a Helios CD and install it.
Things are mostly working fine now, but I had two problems with the upgrade
process which someone might want to investigate:
(1) My CD writer was no longer recognized. A bit of web browsing pointed at
the culprit: the overwritten lilo.conf which no longer had the kernel
parameter to specify that hdd should be using ide-scsi.
It would be neat if the existing lilo.conf could be preserved as much
as possible during upgrades, especially "append=" kernel options.
Or does Panoramix already do this?
(2) In /etc/csh.cshrc, there's a line which reads
limit coredumpsize 1000000
I don't know whether this was there before, but every time I started a
terminal window, or ran Netscape or Real Player, I would get an error
message about not being able to set the limit. Netscape and RealPlayer
would refuse to start. I have worked around it by commenting out the
limit line, but that's obviously not ideal.
Other than those issues, and a little bit of tweaking to get VMware happy
again, things seem to be working well.
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