Ok, I took the plunge and tried to upgrade my main (non-server devel
machine) Mandrake 7.0 machine to 7.1. The upgrade system still has a long
way to go... it was 4x as long as an install! Anyways, here are a few
install issues with the upgrade:
When you upgrade the Crypto stuff, I get this error:
An error occured Net::FTP: Bad peer address... propogated.
This happens regardless of what server I pick. Next, when I select grub
for the bootloader (I assume this would happen with just LILO too) I get
this:
Installation of LILO failed. The following error occurred:
Syntax error near line 8 in file /etc/lilo.conf
FYI, this is what it picked up to add:
failsafe (/boot/vmlinuz)
floppy (/dev/fd0)
linux (/boot/vmlinuz) *
linux-beta (/mnt/stuff2/boot/vmlinuz)
old1_windows (/dev/hda2)
old_linux (/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk)
windows (/dev/hda2)
After I removed floppy and linux-beta it worked. Obviously /mnt/stuff2
didn't exist (this is where I had originally installed 7.1beta), so it
should be smart enough to realize this and not add it. Also, I have only
an LS-120 on this machine, so why make a floppy entry for /dev/fd0? Can't
we tell the difference yet? There's nothing on /dev/fd0, so why include
it?
When I went to try XFree 4.0, the test worked good, but it hung on the
exit of the test (back to installer). I couldn't switch to anything and
only the three-finger-salute fixed it (but then it made a mess of the
install). So I went and installed it from scratch, which was ok, and put
reiserfs on the / partition. So far so good.
Only issue now is that it didn't install joe even though I told it
too. When I went to check, RPM told me that joe wasn't an RPM package, so
there must be an error with it somewhere (incomplete file?). I downloaded
the same package from cooker and it installed fine. Now, I don't know if
this problem is there for other packages, but joe was corrupt on the beta3
ISO.
Also, as a side note, the Crypto install worked on the install, but not on
the Upgrade.
I'll most likely have more reports since I am now going to be using beta3
live.
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