I'm trying to upgrade an RH9 box to Fedora Core 2. The machine is a PII/450, 384MB RAM, ATI Radeon 7000 video card. I'm not having a lot of luck. Here is the process I've gone through:

---I download the iso's and burned them to CD. The mediacheck crashes whenever I try to run it on the disks, but I could use mediacheck from my RH9 disks and all of the FC2 disks passed.

---I booted disk one and started the install. Everything was going fine. It detected my video card, monitor, and mouse correctly and loaded the graphical install manager.

---I picked the relevant language options and then the upgrade option. The installer checked packages/dependencies and then started copying packages. It was going along just fine and then it froze and crashed (I believe it was working on the open office shared libraries package).

---On the ctrl+Alt+F1 screen it shows it detected monitor,mouse etc and that the X server fired up ok. After the crash it says "install exited abnormally."

On the ctrl+Alt+F3 screen the last couple of lines are:
*switching from iso[1] to i2 for openoffice.org-libs-1.1.1-4.i386
*isys.py:mount()- going to mount /tmp/hdb on /mnt/source

In the syslog the call trace has a bunch of references to isofs and mount.

---The install was partially successful. When I boot to the hd now, GRUB reports FC2 instead of RH9. Also, the Xserver has been screwed up and I can only get things to boot into text mode. My /home directories are still there, but a lot of other system related things seem pretty messed up. Also, when I have tried to install again, it only says I need disk 2,3, and 4 now (the first time it said I needed all 4)I

----I have repeated this process using the text installer and got the same results.

----I saw some information about logitech mice causing issues during install so I disconnected my logitech trackball and replaced it with an MS intellimouse (PS/2). This didn't change anything. Also, the error I get happens at a different place from where most people reported this issue.


Any ideas?

Looks to me like their are faults in your ISO's. I would suggest (if possible) to re-download ISO 1 and 2 and retry the installation. Otherwise, try uninstalling RedHat and make a clean install of Fedora, because it is possible that the installation has problems with overwriting the OpenOffice version on RedHat with the version from Fedora.

You can just try reïnstalling without OpenOffice too, however I don't know if you will be able to use the one that's left by RedHat afterwards.