RH9 (Athlon) -> FC2 update install

[dnar]

Hi everyone.

I recently upgraded my Laptop's RH9 to FC2, all went extremelly well so now I want to upgrade my workstations as well.

My main workstation was installed as RH9, however I have since rebuilt the system from srpms for the Athlon CPU. When attempting to upgrade to FC2 I receive a warning that the system was originally installed as i386 and is now Athlon, and the upgrade may fail.

How risky is forcing the upgrade regardless? BTW, this WS also contains many atrpm and Freshrpms packages (i386).

I would really like to upgrade rather than start again, although I do have good backups on my server.

BTW, FC2 rocks! I am very impressed! I started back in RH4 days, the current offering is so far removed from the early days, finally approaching something to rival Windows and Mac!

Many thanks,

Wayne.

[Ug]

I was about to say, "How vanilla" is your system. But it appears its not that vanilla - I think you might have been able to get away with it when upgrading to FC1.

It seems like the sensible thing to do here would be just to do a clean install. It may give you far too many headaches otherwise.

I don't condone forcing RPMs, bad things happen.

[dnar]

Thanks. I NEVER force rpms, learnt that one years ago...

I have pretty much come to the conclusion a fresh build is best, but thought it worth asking here what the outcome may well be if I do choose to upgrade... More interested in hearing from those that have done this (knowing not many at all bother to re-compile the entire system from srpms.)

BTW, I would never again bother to compile a complete system from srpms, I noticed no concernable speed inprovement. Kernel compilation I shall continue to do, but I'll leave it there.

[Ug]

Sounds fair enough. All the RPMs are normally quite tweaked in development...

[dnar]

Cool, I just dropped a fresh 80GB drive in, installed FC2 and am now copying in my preffs and data.

It even detected my dual-head card! Cool! No more farting around with the Matrox modified modules and drivers.

[Ug]

:D

FC2 is a great product.

[dnar]

Oh yes!

I am getting there slowly, my remote-x apps (gkrellms etc) are not using the MS fonts (~/.fonts) - off to find out how to add truetype fonts globally and not just to my profile.

Oh this is so nice and fast! Running XP2500+ @ 2300Mhz, this is much snappier than RH9. Kinda like going from RH8 to RH9.