Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 29.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Joel Rees: >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Reindl Harald >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 28.12.2012 23:43, schrieb Joel Rees: I'm wondering if anyone has ventured to move /usr after the install. If so

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Joel Rees: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 28.12.2012 23:43, schrieb Joel Rees: >>> I'm wondering if anyone has ventured to move /usr after the install. >>> If so, how badly does it bite? >> >> if selinux is disabled it should be q

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 28.12.2012 23:43, schrieb Joel Rees: >> I'm wondering if anyone has ventured to move /usr after the install. >> If so, how badly does it bite? > > if selinux is disabled it should be quite easy to move anything > with a livecd and also

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2012 23:43, schrieb Joel Rees: > I'm wondering if anyone has ventured to move /usr after the install. > If so, how badly does it bite? if selinux is disabled it should be quite easy to move anything with a livecd and also create the symlinks, what is more a problem in your subject is up

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
(Sorry for the spam, Alan.) On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:12:43 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> Never mind. >> >> I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in >> a 15G partition and figure out where to go from there. > > If you a

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:12:43 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Never mind. > > I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in > a 15G partition and figure out where to go from there. If you are trying to keep /usr separate the "where to go" answer I'm afraid is most probably Mint

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
Never mind. I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in a 15G partition and figure out where to go from there. And the engineers whose hubris pushed this accursed merge /usr project have my eternal disrespect. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Well, I

Re: upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-27 Thread Joel Rees
Well, I looked around with the rescue mode, and it looks like the netinstall failed to install the kernel and associated files. And grub2 can only find f16 kernels. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > I was planning things out, then I thought, just maybe it'll work, and > tried th

upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

2012-12-27 Thread Joel Rees
I was planning things out, then I thought, just maybe it'll work, and tried the straight upgrade. Is there any way to recover? (Without losing my precious list of installed apps that started from the security live CD?) And is there any way to glue a separate /usr partition in so that the accurse