[PlanetCCRMA] upgrade questions RH8->FC3

[Diemo Schwarz]

bob wrote:
> HI Just doing it now!
[...]
> What do you all need in the way of info?
> and I'll post it later.

Great!

What distribution version are you starting from?

What is your method:
- from FC3 (+Planet?) CDs, or
- via apt

I just stumbled over the following mail in my list backlog, suggesting the CD 
method (from RH9, if that makes any difference).  Jamie, did your upgrade work out?

								...Diemo

Samuel Sieb wrote:
 > Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:42:44 -0800
 > jamie anderson wrote:
 >
 >> I was wondering how well it would work to change my apt sources & conf
 >> files from redhat 9 to fedora 2 to upgrade my system.  The reason is
 >> that I have a winfast tv 2000 xp deluxe card that I can't get to work
 >> under the current kernel & thought that this might work (2.6 kernel),
 >> but I don't want to lose all of the configurations that I have taken
 >> so much time to setup.
 >
 > It's doable, but tricky.  You can't just do one big upgrade.  You have
 > to fiddle with the packages a bit and do some a bit at a time.  I did
 > manage to get it to work, but it was very difficult.
 >
 > You're much better off to just do an upgrade using the CDs.  It's a lot
 > quicker (and very much easier) that way and you'll still keep your
 > configurations.


bob wrote:
> Cant get sound from my VIA/97 card on the mobo and this did work in the 
> FC3 install.
> /proc/asound/
> seems to see both cards my via 97 and the RME
> I note the RME showing synch with the Fostex
> 
> Just a thought
> What do you all need in the way of info?
> and I'll post it later.
> 
> Also the RME seems to have a GUI showing in Gnome
> But it doesn't do anything when I try start it.
> I'm using the latest test kernel at the moment
> 
[...]
> 
> Cheers
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:42 +0100, Diemo Schwarz wrote:
> 
>>Jumping in on this thread, has anyone tried to actually upgrade an existing 
>>redhat+planet installation to FC3, without complete reinstall?
>>
>>I'm still on RH 8, is it possible at all to upgrade using the FC3 CDs?
>>
>>A related question is:  Can I download (or generate) a printable version of the 
>>Planet CCRMA doc at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software?
>>
>>Cheers and thanks for the amazing work!...
>>								...Diemo

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