[TriLUG] Big problems with a Red Hat 7.2 -> 7.3 upgrade

[Mike McLean]

Generally, the machine should be semi- to mostly- usable after a 
half-upgrade as you described, depending on where it stoppped.

You should be able to run the upgrade again from scratch. (Assuming you 
have space).  Verify your media first ('linux mediacheck' at the 
syslinux prompt).

If you suspect a problem with your cdrom drive, try a network upgrade 
(with the bootnet.img floppy image).  Or if the isos on the hard drive 
are good, just do a hard drive install (with the boot.img floppy image).

Tom Bryan wrote:
> Back in May, I pulled the Red Hat 7.3 ISOs off of the LUGs mirror.  I finally 
> had the time to try the upgrade today.  
> 
> I made it through to the package install.  The installer was happily copying 
> packages to my machine when it got to kdebase.  It complained that I was out 
> of disk space (I appear to have plenty still), have bad media, or encountered 
> a hardware failure.  
> 
> Now my system is in a half-upgraded state.  The first CD is possibly a faulty 
> burn (mounts fine, how else would I check it?).  I did run md5sum to check 
> the ISO images before burning CDs.  I can't seem to access the CD drive now.  
> Any suggestions?  How do I procede?  Could it be a hard disk problem?  How 
> would I tell?  I've never hit an install problem like this, and I'm not sure 
> how to proceed.  
> 
> I do have some options here.  I have two other machines in the house (neither 
> with a ton of disk space).  I also still have the ISO images on the hard 
> drive of the machine that's now half-upgraded.  Any help is greatly 
> appreciated!
> 
> ---Tom
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