Upgrade of RH 7.1 and Linuxconf

[Tom Diehl]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Greg Ennis wrote:

> Everyone,
> 
> I have tried to upgrade my RH 7.1 box with FC1 and had some problems.  The first time I started the upgrade it aborted; I tried it again and a third time with subsequent failures after not being able to find linuxconf.  The first time it aborted the missing file 'linuxconf' message was not present.
> 
> I was able to reboot 7.1 and linuxconf is now missing on the system.  I do not know if linuxconf was missing before I started the upgrade or not.  My belief is that linuxconf was present and somehow got deleted during the upgrade.

Linuxconf died a long and horrible death many years ago. There are better ways
to do things. Linuxconf was borked in MANY MANY ways.

> Is there a way to recover from this problem without going to the backup's, or preferably is there a way to continue the Fedora upgrade. 

You do not want to reinstall it. It WILL bork your system. Make sure you have
good backups and run the upgrade again. It _should_ get any packages it missed
the first time.

HTH,

Tom