Hi All
I have a dual box windox / Linux RH9

is it possible to upgrade from RH9 to FC 4?

My PC is Pentium 2 400 old Model but still working fine 512 MBRam
I have seen no constraints against P2 but I need an expert opinion
Thnks

Yes you can upgrade; just use the FC4 install CDs and there should be an upgrade option. There may be some conflicts with old packages and stuff after the upgrade, so it may be preferable to do a clean install, if possible. Pentium II 400 is not bad especially with the amount of RAM you have.

Yeah... there may be some details to clear up, but nothing to serious.
Personally, I went this route: rh8->rh9->fc2->fc4.

The most annoying was the rh9->fc2 upgrade. Pam got a bit screwed up and said "authorization failed" whenever I tried to login.
Even as root. After booting from cd in rescue mode, root started magically to work again.
Logging in as user started to work again after I fixed a line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth.
Apparantly it had somethin to do with my user id:s starting with 500, rather than 600, iirc.

Note, ofc, my first users where created eith rh8.

fc2->fc4...
iirc haldeamon and a few other services complained about not having user names. Easily fixed.

rh8->rh9
The names of my locale-files changed. se_SE.UTF-8 became sv_SE.UTF-8 and /etc/sysconfig/i18n wasn't updated to reflect it. iirc it was this update.

Just a few examples^_^

Oh, and there was there was that sound issue when upgrading to fc2... the permissions where wrong on the sound-thingies in /dev

One silly question
how to use the file SHAlsum
I contains the check sum of the packages i beleive ?

Just type 'sha1sum <filename>' where <filename> is the name of the image file you want to check. Compare the output with the sha1sum given on the download page.

thanks guys
Its done

Hello again guys
I performed the upgrade today
it went smoothly
on rebooting I get this message
Loading LinuxEBDA is big;kernel setup stack overlaps LILO stage , and it hangs
any clue

my new lilo.conf

boot = /dev/hda
map = /boot/map
timeout = 50
prompt
message = /boot/message
default = DOS
vga = normal
read-only
install=/boot/boot.b
lba32
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
label = 2.6.11-1.1369_F
append = " root=LABEL=/"
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8custom
label = 2.4.20-8custom
append = " root=LABEL=/"
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8custom.img
other = /dev/hda1
label = DOS
optional


the old lilo.conf

prompt
timeout=50
default=DOS
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=DOS