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Hi Greg<BR>
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On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:56, Greg wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>If I understand correctly you migrated a server from RH9 to Fedora via
an upgrade.</I></FONT></PRE>
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Er, I have a DELL laptop 30GB HDD dual boot 8GB Windows98 (Like a new swimmer can't let go of the float yet) I have/had redhat 9 installed, the Fedora disk asked me if this is what I wanted to upgrade so I assumed yes? however this is another area of concern as the GUI package management on my HDD seems to relate to the Redhat9 installations while if I pop the Fedora disk 1 in then I get a different rpm list (good eh?).
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>When you do that the up2date channel you were using for RH9 wont be
usable in Fedora anyhow. Once your using Fedora you need to update some
configuration files to make things happy again.</I></FONT></PRE>
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I guessed that, however up2date worked fine (under Fedora) until 10:00am today when I decided to be a smart Alec and mess around with the program. (I should point out I did this once before under RH9 without any problems).
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this unnoficial faq will answer your question</FONT>
<A HREF="http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/"><U>http://fedora.artoo.net/faq</U></A>
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If that doesnt work you can always rpm -e --nopdeps up2date then rpm
-ivh up2date (you will need a fedora cd for the install). That will
uninstall the old stuff and should reinstall the up2date software,
directories and config files. Then try the faq again.</I></FONT></PRE>
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This looks impressive. Er your going to hate me I have installed some 3rd party apps and have some stuff which I had to do ./configure make make install but failed on the make install, will the above get rid of this rubbish or should I just leave alone?
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-Greg
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 07:24, Peter Cannon wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have been using Redhat 9 for about four months, I am really
> proficient at starting up and shutting down.
> About 4 weeks ago I upgraded/Loaded Fedora and have had some problems
> some of which I have solved and some are still outstanding.
>
> Having said all of that I did a really, really stupid thing today,
> when I installed Fedora I had a few error messages but pushed on
> through the installation regardless, so I thought it would be a good
> idea (here comes the stupid bit) to delete the system on the Red Hat
> site, then delete /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid re register the system.
>
> Oh dear a little knowledge is dangerous, now my up2date says " This
> system may not be updated until it is associated with a channel." or
> "the applet has been unable to access the following information
> sources in its last attempts: fedora-core-1 @
> </FONT><A HREF="http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1"><U>http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1</U></A><FONT COLOR="#737373">, updates-released @
> </FONT><A HREF="http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1"><U>http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1"</U></A>
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> However when I try to associate with a channel on Redhats site the
> website will net let me (possibly I'm doing something wrong).
>
> Can anyone help me "please, please, pretty please" keep in mind that I
> am a complete idiot and will need total hand holding (ie. click on
> this, then this or type this, then this)
>
> I hope someone will be kind enough to help as at the moment my laptop
> cannot now auto update.
>
> Thank you
> Regards
>
> Peter Cannon
>
> </FONT><A HREF="mailto:peter@cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk">peter@cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk</I></A></PRE>
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Peter Cannon
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