Fedora Core 6 (Zod) makes a bid for world domination

Posted Oct 26, 2006 7:58 UTC (Thu) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link]

Rebooted from the DVD, and received at disk-error message after it began booting ISOLINUX. Tried again, and again. Same deal.

I am not very clear on the error you are describing, although perhaps I am lucky not to have encountered it.

I have installed FC6 using the installer via NFS on two machines, and am currently going through the time-consuming, problem-solving process of doing yum -y upgrade on this machine, since it is my mail and web server.

Here is a couple of observations:

• It seems that in extras, the lesstiff packages do not obsolete the openmotif packages. This broke the yum -y update after the installation on one machine.
• I think that Red Hat could focus on making yum -y upgrade work properly with enormous benefit to its customers.
• The lack of cooperation between the various packagers hurts the situation seriously. Red Hat could benefit their users enormously by spending money on communicating with the people behind atrpms, rpmforge, freshrpms and so on. It is the lack of consistency between these various packagers that hurts the yum -y upgrade process, making it far more painful than apt-get upgrade. For people without buckets of money for redundant servers, yum -y upgrade is the only way to go. It is not feasable to take a server down for the huge number of hours it can take to do an upgrade from the installation media.
• Defaulting to do a re-install than an upgrade seems very odd to someone who still has the remnants of Red Hat installations from 1997 on their machine. Is this a partial admission from Red Hat that upgrading is fraught with nuisances?