YDL 2.3 can i upgrade to 3.0 from within 2.3?

[Netzer Antonio]

> 7300/308mb ram, g3 upgrade card, ide controller card, 80 gig hard drive
> (3g for linux), ati 128xclaim vr, usb/firewire pci card.

Ok, I almost ready to try this.. but just one question, I have an old 
word mac ,7300
and I read the following line
" I have an OldWorld box so I
had to mess with getting the 'official' kernel downloaded and on to my 
HFS
partition for BootX."

what exactly did you have to do???

I don't want to try the update and then find that I can't boot into it

thanks

Netz
On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 05:04  PM, Dan A. Milisic wrote:

> This might help... I successfully upgraded a 2.3 base install to 3.0 
> using
> apt-get.
>
> D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan A. Milisic [mailto:dmilisic@canada.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 2:17 AM
> To: 'yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com'
> Subject: Upgrading to 2.3 to 3.0 -- Shotgun Approach, one more thing...
>
> If anyone is brave enough to try this on an existing install, make 
> -sure-
> you delete any old 2.3 .rpm's in /var/cache/apt/archives/ before you
> download the 3.0 updates!  Bad things will obviously happen if you 
> force
> install multiple versions of the same package.  On a clean install,
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ would have already been empty.  Don't let 
> this bite
> you!
>
> D.
> -----Original Message-----
>
> BrianDump... My experience upgrading a "Base" YDL 2.3 install to 3.0 on
> OldWorld Mac (PM8600) so as always, YMMV.  I guess backing off some 2.3
> packages from an existing install (Gnome/Kde pkgs and associated 
> .prefs,
> etc..) would yield similar results.
>
> Installing YDL 3.0 from a 2.3 CD.
>
> Do a clean YDL 2.3 install, select the option "Base Install" and set 
> up your
> networking
>
> Login as root:
>
> Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to point at your 3.0 repository
>
> Pick a 3.0 Mirror, this as an example:
>
> rpm ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/yellowdog/ apt/3.0 main
> rpm-src ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/yellowdog/ apt/3.0 main
>
> rpm ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/yellowdog/ apt/3.0 update
> rpm-src ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/yellowdog/ apt/3.0 update
>
> Once that's done.
>
> [root@powermac root]# apt-get update
> [root@powermac root]# apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> After apt gets all the updates, rpm will proceed to freak out when it
> attempts to install the 3.0 .rpm files:
>
> rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1 is needed by ...
>
> Okay then, fine.  Shotgun time:
>
> [root@powermac root]# Rpm -uvh --nodeps --force
> /var/cache/apt/archives/*.rpm
>
> rpm force-installs *all* the 3.0 rpm's we got from the dist-upgrade 
> earlier.
>
> [root@powermac root]# reboot
>
> <.>
> _________________________________
>
> Yellow Dog Linux release 3.0 (Sirius)
> Kernel 2.4.20 on an ppc
>
> powermac login:
>
> Looks good. login and dist-upgrade again:
>
> [root@powermac root]# apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> At this point apt will start to upgrade packages that were missed on 
> the
> last go-round.  It will warn you that your computer may explode or 
> kill your
> dog in the upgrade process.  Reply to apt's dire warnings with "Yes, 
> do as I
> say!"
>
> These packages get the upgrade treatment on the second-go round, FYI:
>
> initscripts
> pam
> cyrus-sasl-plain
> cyrus-sasl-gssapi
> cyrus-sasl-md5
> openldap
> libuser
> passwd
> usermode
> compat-libstdc++
> compat-db
> compat-pwdb
> gnupg
> kbd
>
> Apt should successfully install the above packages.  Not sure if all 
> the
> reboots are necessary but.
>
> [root@powermac root]# reboot
>
> There may be a couple of minor startup errors you'll have to correct, 
> but at
> this point you've officially joined the 3.0 party.  I browsed the 
> package
> list and used apt-get to put together a Gnome 2 environment.  Went 
> directly
> to rpmfind and grabbed synaptic, a fantastic apt frontend I used a lot 
> in
> Debian, makes distro customization a breeze.  I have an OldWorld box 
> so I
> had to mess with getting the 'official' kernel downloaded and on to my 
> HFS
> partition for BootX.
>
> So far I'm very, very impressed with YDL 3.0.  The stock 2.4.20 kernel
> handled all my semi-weird hardware with no hiccups (except an 
> intermittent
> Opti USB chip bug, but that's not the distro's fault.)  MOL ran OSX 
> 10.2
> with minimal configuration, and dare I say it, faster than native OSX 
> in
> some areas.  Not to mention my 8600's 'control' Video now runs OSX in
> 1280x1024xThousands, something OSX could -never- do natively.  And 
> OSX's
> volume control slider now works in MOL where it didn't natively.  Go 
> figure.
>
>
>
> This is a release worth owning on CD, the test-drive just sold me ;)
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf 
> Of
> Netzer Antonio
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 2:06 AM
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: YDL 2.3 can i upgrade to 3.0 from within 2.3?
>
> 7300/308mb ram, g3 upgrade card, ide controller card, 80 gig hard drive
> (3g for linux), ati 128xclaim vr, usb/firewire pci card.
>
> i was able to install and run 2.3,
> i've tried everything  to get 3.0 to install, but installer crashes
> upon choosing a partitioning method...
> so i'm wondering if it's possible to do the upgrade within 2.3, which
> boots up fine...
>
> thanks
>
>
> Netz
>
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