Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Mon May 30 16:52:48 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/30/2011 09:44 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > Frank,
> >
> > Will this work on an old 32-bit Thinkpad that's maxed out with 512MB of
> > RAM? Installing from DVD fails.
> 
> You can try upgrading piecemeal.  Some major set of packages,  python, 
> then gtk and so on

Rahul,

That's what I was thinking. The roadblock I run into with a conventional
DVD install/upgrade is:

[    7.076671] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...

I don't think a yum upgrade tries to do that, but I'm not certain.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL



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