Hi folks, I trying to upgrade a FC5 machine to Fedora 8, but the install just hangs whether I do a graphic install or a text install. Badically I'm doing an upgrade rather than a reinstall, the install spots that FC5 is already on the machine and offers to upgrade that, which of course I say yes to. It then goes off and tries to resolve dependencies for all the packages, gets to 28% and never gets any further. I started to fdo an upgrade Tuesday evening, had to go out for a couple of hours shortly after it had reached the 28% mark, and when I got back in it was still at 28%. For various long winded reasons I left it like that until Friday evening and it was still at 28%. I think it's fairly safe to say that it would never have got any further, so I abandoned it. Can anyone offer any help or insight? Dave PS, I cannot seem to find any CD based distros for F8 apart from live distros. Are there any CD based installs? -- Dave Stratford ZFCA http://daves.orpheusweb.co.uk/ Hexagon Systems Limited - Experts in VME systems development

In article <Xjk9j.23785$j7.445411@news.indigo.ie>, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > Dave Stratford wrote: > > I personally think that it aught to be possible to upgrade from (almost) > > any version, certainly the previous two years, as fedora have new releases > > far too often to upgrade every time. > I think it probably is possible to upgrade from FC-5 to F-8. > I upgraded from FC-5 to F-7, and I don't think > there have been any radical changes between F-7 and F-8. > I doubt if your problem with the install hanging > had anything to do the fact that you were upgrading from FC-5. > Plenty of people seemed to have the same problem > upgrading from F-7 to F-8. > You will need to label all your partitions, > and use these LABELs in grub.conf and /etc/fstab . I'm not sure what you mean by this. I've had a quick google around for a better explanation, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for and am therefore a bit uncertain about what I have found. Do you mind giving me a pointer to some specific docs or info? Many thanks, Dave -- Dave Stratford ZFCA http://daves.orpheusweb.co.uk/ Hexagon Systems Limited - Experts in VME systems development

In article <jlk9j.23786$j7.445386@news.indigo.ie>, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > Dave Stratford wrote: > > As an aside, is it possible to create partitions with more than 1 > > directory in it? That is, could I create a partition to hold just /home > > and /var for example? > You can do this by using LVM, > but that is probably not what you are thinking of. I dunno. Isn't it? Dave -- Dave Stratford ZFCA http://daves.orpheusweb.co.uk/ Hexagon Systems Limited - Experts in VME systems development