On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote:
On 6/1/2009 9:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote:
>> On 6/1/2009 6:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Monday 01 June 2009, David wrote:
>>>> On 6/1/2009 3:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> Where did you 'get' the preupgrade.
>>>
>>> F8 repo via yumex.
>>
>> Ok. You had an install of Fedora 8 and you tried/wanted to upgrade to
>> Fedora 10? Correct?
>
> Its been running F8 for over a year, just not recently powered up. There
> were 50 packages which took several hours to get and install, then I
> rebooted and installed preupgrade from the F8 repos. So its been running
> F8 for about 20 months when it was running. I had installed it fresh a
> week before I took off to go say goodby to my daughter Barbara in late
> fall of 2007.
>
> And yes, what I really wanted was an upgrade to F10. Now its at rawhide,
> and I have no keyboard or mouse when in x so ATM I'm wandering around in a
> few tty's.
>
>> It will have to wait until the weekend but Ill d/l Fedora 8 and try this.
>> --
>
> TYhanks David but don't worry about it, its done, its broken, and now it
> must be fixed asap cuz I'll need it for the Michigan trip in addition to
> running fmit.
>
> And I'll need it 100% functional before the end of the week, this MI job
> MUST be done by midnight June 11. That part is not even open for
> discussion. FCC mandate.
Sorry for your troubles. Might I suggest a Live-CD install of Fedora 10.
That only takes a few minutes.
If no one can offer a fix for the x problems, that will happen tomorrow. It
was just that I hated to lose all the customizations I had done to make the
network work, things like that, and it almost did succeed in screwing the
pooch, it overwrote my /etc/hosts file, and left me with a zero length
resolv.conf. It did, amazingly, leave my hard coded ipv4 address alone.
And one thing I can complement rawhide on, tty* is almost running at the
displays native resolution instead of the 80x24 screen F8 had.
????? I just typed yum check-update, 2 hours after doing the preupgrade, and
it is going to install one package and update another 119. I repeat, WTF?
Beer-thirty and I obviously am at least 3 behind here.
--
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