Saturday, February 12, 2005, 10:34:20 PM, Jeff wrote:

>> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:27:41 -0500, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I upgraded from FC1 to FC3 using the
>>> upgrade option on the FC3 boot CD and tried
>>> to follow the upgrade section of Jarod's guide.
>>> apt-get complains about lots of problems with
>>> fc1 packages which I suspect will take some time
>>> to work out.
>>> 
>>> Is it worth going through this or do people
>>> just copy the important files to a safe place
>>> and do a new install when upgrading a FC release?
>>> 
>>> The important files seem to be:
>>> 
>>> mythtv database from mysqldump
>>> /home/...
>>> /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
>>> /etc/asound.state
>>> /etc/exports
>>> /etc/fstab
>>> /etc/hosts.*
>>> /etc/init.d/vncserver
>>> /etc/lircd.conf
>>> /etc/lvmconf/* (output file from vgcfgbackup)
>>> /etc/modules.conf
>>> /etc/modprobe.conf
>>> /etc/ntp.conf
>>> /etc/rc.local
>>> /etc/ssh/*
>>> /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
>>> 
> Saturday, February 12, 2005, 9:31:52 PM, Kevin Wentland wrote:

>> I am considering doing this myself.... FC1 -> FC3

>> How did it go for you?

>> After you did the Fedora upgrade did you upgrade your apt to coincide
>> with your new fedora version?

>> Maybe this would have had it complain less.

> It is not going well. FC3 is up but that's it at the moment.
> Fortunatly, this is a 2nd frontend I'm experimenting on,
> not my main backend+frontend.

> I did the Fedora upgrade because I'm using LVM and there
> are strong warnings about not using apt if you've got a
> LVM.

> I found that after the FC3 upgrade finished the machine
> wouldn't boot. It hung on calculating kernel parameters.
> The fix to this
>   (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/277212)
> is to boot and type <a> when you select the kernel, edit the boot
> line and remove rhgb. There is a note that after booting:
>   sh NVIDIA*.run
>   maybe edit xorg.conf
>   /sbin/modprobe nvidia
>   cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
>   chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
> will resolve the problem. I haven't tried this yet so X isn't
> up at the moment.

> After the Fedora upgrade I downloaded atrpms-kickstart. This
> required removing a couple of fc1 packages (medley-package-config)
> and yum as they depend on the apt sources file.

> The apt sources file from atrmps-kickstart contained a
> reference to ayo.freshrpms.net. This was broken so I changed it
> to freshrpms.pingo.org. This let apt-get update run.

> apt-get dist-upgrade requires -f due to some broken
> dependencies and even with -f it doesn't run.


Ok, in case anyone else cares, here's what I did.

After FC3 was installed from the boot disk and I modified
the apt sources as above (this may not have been necessary)
I used rpm -e to remove the various kernel modules installed
for myth (alsa, nvidia-kernel, lirc, ivtv, bttv, video4linux).
Attempting
   apt-get install kernel=2.6.9-1.724_FC3
will list the problems on your system.

apt-get -f install was necessary to fix a couple of other
issues.

2.6.9-1.724_FC3 in Jarod's guide is now old.
Try 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 or pick your own poison. Look at the
kernels supported on ATrpms and compare this to the list
available on ayo.freshrpms.net.

Once I got the kernel installed (or maybe before I got the
kernel installed but after the dependencies were removed)
I re-installed atrpms-kickstart.

In order to get VNC back up I had to edit xorg.conf and
remove the VNC lines from the "Display" section and add
  Option "passwordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
to the "Screen" section.

After installing the nvidia packages (from Jarod's guide) I
was able to reboot and X would start.

At this point I followed Jarod's guide for a first time
install, skipping steps which don't make sense.

Something seems funny with lircd. I got irw to run with
some fiddling around but I don't think it survived a
reboot. I need to track this down. lircd is starting as
"S65" so this isn't the problem.









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