Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] 9.0 to 9.1 >On 02 Jun 2003 12:40:04 -0400
>Try the upgrade option, if it is not functioning properly after the >upgrade, what have you lost? about 40 minutes. Try more like a day. Seriously. I had a good 9.1 cooker go south recently and I went back to 9.0, and then burned the ISOs for 9.1. At the end of the install (which itself took nearly an hour), the computer just locked up solid. Next I tried to boot the system. No go, so went back to 9.0. Then I tried doing an upgrade install -- same thing, the computer locks up at the end of the install. So back to 9.0. I managed to get 9.1 there for a bit but then, and it might have been my screwup, the boot manager was absolutely broken, and the box wouldn't boot. Nothing seems to have worked to get it back, so reinstalled a third time 9.0. The 9.0 install goes relatively quickly due to that I only have 1 disk. So once I have it installed, it's off to urpmi everything I can find. (Thank ghod I have the plf easy urpmi website bookmarked --- and if you don't , you realy should.) I'm now remirroring cooker and did a urpmi --auto --auto-select but a small number of packages won't install due to bad signatures. I'm still managing to miss a number of packages ... ncftp for one - I swear that it was installed in 9.0 from the contrib site. Now it can't find it. Ditto for gcombust. Perhaps I'm unique in that the ISOs may have been bad, but I can't think of any other explanation for this breaking so badly. My previous upgrades (urpmi, 9.1, cooker) have gone quite smoothly. I once did an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 via urpmi, also I had downloaded all the 9.1 ISOs (at the time I could not burn CDs) and loopback mounted them individually, then added each as a source in urpmi. Worked like a charm. (Next time I will take the added effort to verify the burned CD against the ISO).
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