RH 8.0 upgrade to Fedora Core 2 - crashes

[Bryan C. Andregg]

On Sep 29, 2004, at 7:28 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Bryan C. Andregg wrote:
>> I am attempting to upgrade a Red Hat 8.0 system to Fedora Core 2 using
>> the install CD images from the website. The current system is a stock
>> install with most updates (until 8.0 was EOL'd) and very little or no
>> custom software or third party software installed.
>>
>> During the upgrade everything works until the installer displays
>> "Preparing RPM Transaction" at which point the installer terminates 
>> and
>> the system shuts down. The upgrade log has plenty of detail about
>> upgrading dependancies followed by packages to be upgraded and ends
>> with:
>>
>> The following packages were available in this version but NOT 
>> upgraded:
>> Upgrading comps-8.0-0.20020910.
>
> How much memory does the system have? How much swap space?
>
256 M RAM
1 G Swap

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Bryan C. Andregg
<bandregg at loopback.net>