OK the machine in question to be upgraded from RH9 to FC was getting far too many segfaults for my liking, so I downloaded the first FC5 iso and booted up memtest86. Turns out one of the 512MB sticks is TOTALLY screwed. I left the tester for about 4 minutes, and it found cumulatively 67000 errors, approximately. Took the stick out, but by this time, I had already nuked the root directory so it's back to the start I go.
So, after much swearing, I tried the FC5 netinstall from CD 1. Needless to say, what should have been an easy job turned out to be a day long nightmare. Trying to grab headers and packages from CD1 and a nice quick Swedish FC repo proved to be too much for the box and just hung each time it got to "Starting installation...". I Alt+F'ed to the debug terminals to find db4 errors with the rpm DB. I nuked the /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 .002 and .003 files and moved the Packages file - the errors went, but the hangs didn't go away.
I gave up.
I'm getting the FC5 DVD iso as we speak. Fucking thing.
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