Re: TRIUMPH! Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:31:40 +, Beartooth wrote: PC #4, my oldest and slowest, is now running F12! Gnat in ointment: I could swear I told it to upgrade existing (and got suspicious when it let me customize now), but it didn't. However, that machine and all it had were expendable. What's more, that same DVD-RW, now in my Thinkpad T42, is installing F12 again. It also just offered me the customization choice -- and wouldn't let me go back, except by terminating the install; but again, its data was expendable. It did do a complete install -- but it evaporated all of my tweaks and data, including even my innumerable choices of apps to install or remove, on the T42 as well as on PC #4. I tried it in PC #3, which is *not* nearly so expendable, and noticed this time that when it gets to partitioning, one choice is to replace existing linux installation -- which might mean putting either an upgrade or a fresh install into the space now used. What became of the choice we used to have?? Btw, I also find, every time I hit the partitioner, it refuses to let me increase /boot beyond 200 MB. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: TRIUMPH! Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:12:38 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] I tried it in PC #3, which is *not* nearly so expendable, and noticed this time that when it gets to partitioning, one choice is to replace existing linux installation -- which might mean putting either an upgrade or a fresh install into the space now used. What became of the choice we used to have?? Btw, I also find, every time I hit the partitioner, it refuses to let me increase /boot beyond 200 MB. I gave up for now on PC #3, and tried the same DVD-RW in PC #2. It did hit a choice of upgrading, which I took -- whereupon it hung. I let it go a long long time, thinking it might yet manage, then finally hit Ctrl-Alt-Bs. There were two messages there saying that 30-second timeouts had been exceeded, and one admitting failure. I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and it restarted Anaconda -- but went yet again only to the screen without the upgrade option. sigh -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
TRIUMPH! Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:19:49 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] Meanwhile, there is a new development. I had burned the install DVD on the first disk that came handy, which happened to be double-sided. I thought to try a well-used DVD-RW instead, and put that into #4 machine. It seems to be working. Stay tuned. PC #4, my oldest and slowest, is now running F12! Gnat in ointment: I could swear I told it to upgrade existing (and got suspicious when it let me customize now), but it didn't. However, that machine and all it had were expendable. What's more, that same DVD-RW, now in my Thinkpad T42, is installing F12 again. It also just offered me the customization choice -- and wouldn't let me go back, except by terminating the install; but again, its data was expendable. Meanwhile, preupgrade still fails on PC #2 and #3 (and I have yet to try on #1 or the T30 Thinkpad), and on the EeePC running Omega. I'll try again, probably tomorrow (It's Thanksgiving here, and I'm the cook.), and report further. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
