[mythtv-users] Best update path from Fedora 6

[Niels Dybdahl]

>
> > 2. Install the Fedora 10 DVD on top of my existing installation.
>>
>> Two choices for #2 - upgrade or new install, though I'll bet no one
>> tested upgrading from fc6 to fc10. Might be safer (and more tedious) to
>> do the upgrade sequentially (7,8,9,10). Once doing a fedora upgrade it
>> didn't work for me and I had to do a fresh install - I don't recall the
>> version numbers.
>
>
I have now tried to put a new harddisk into the server and installing Fedora
10 on it. I have run into a couple of problems:

- The server is also webserver, so I need a fixed IP-address. Even though I
specified during installation that it was going to be a webserver, it was
initially installed with DHCP. I then switched to fixed address, but it does
not save the DNS-addresses that I enter, so when I run it with fixed
IP-address, it can not resolve any host names. I have tried to use DHCP and
let the DHCP-server in my router give it a fixed address together with the
DNS-addresses but for some unknown reason, it still gets an ordinary
DHCP-address and not the fixed one. Maybe I just have to wait a couple of
days until the old lease runs out... But still: Is it really impossible to
set up both an IP-address and DNS-addresses on Fedora 10 without using DHCP?

- I had only one harddisk in the server when I installed Fedora 10. Then I
added my two other harddisks and added the usual entries to /dev/fstab:
  /dev/hdb1               /home2                  ext3    defaults        1
2
  /dev/hdc1               /home3                  ext3    defaults        1
2
Then I rebooted and the system complained about the superblocks on these two
harddisks. I think it stated that they were not ext2 even though I have
specified the systems to be ext3. In top of that it would not allow me to
boot properly on the newly installed harddisk. I could only get some prompt
where the primary harddisk was in read-only mode. So I can not revert my
changes to the fstab.

So I have now put my old Fedora 6 system disk back and it does not complain
about the two other disks. Has something significant changed in the ext3
format between Fedora 6 and Fedora 10?

Best regards
Niels Dybdahl
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