Upgrading to FC3 - [was Re: [ILUG] DHCP on home LAN?]

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> Don't go around recommending yum/apt as a way to upgrade to FC3. 
> FC3's installer does some magic to switch from a static /dev to a 
> udev-based one.  There are manual steps to do this if you're not 
> using anaconda (described in the release notes), but I don't think 
> mortals want to try that.

Upgraded my first machine to FC3.

I first installed udev on FC2 and rebooted. 0 problems, but it doesnt 
seem to interfere with /dev, more /udev it fiddles with.

Then I get apt-get upgraded to FC3 (upgrade, cause dist-upgrade 
wanted to remove stuff), apt-get install'd the packages which had 
been kept back. All worked fine - very very few rpm{save,new} to sort 
out too, which was good.

The only thing i forgot was to run mkinitrd after the upgrade before 
rebooting. As a result of which not much happened on reboot (no 
console). Strangely though when i rebooted and passed 
'init=/bin/bash' to the kernel command line, it booted multiuser and 
with console. weird.

Anyway, happily running FC3 on that box now, and with /var/cache/apt 
nicely seeded ;)

regards,
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