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05/25/2003 Archived Entry: "Whew! Hardware changes"

Well, I've finally done the upgrade. From a PII-400 to an Athlon 2000+ (1.67GHz), plus motherboard and RAM.

A bit of an adventure actually...had a hell of a time getting the system to power up at first (solution: make damned sure the power plugs to the CD drives were all the way in), then OS issues reared up and bit me. I was going to let Redhat 9 try and cope with a motherboard and CPU change, but it just wouldn't do it. I'm not really surprised, and I backed up everything, but I wanted to see how far it's progressed. It was smart enough to deal with detecting the new drive locations and many other things, but it just wouldn't get past the kernel panic :)

So, a reinstall of Redhat was the only solution. Then hours of trying to fix Postfix so Jen and I would stop losing email. If you use postfix and you get an error like "mail for domain.com loops back to myself", the first thing you should try is adding "$mydomain" to the "mydestination = ..." line. This was the final solution. Really, it's one that should be documented on the Postfix site, since more people have this problem and ask it on Usenet than the number of people who've been served a burger at McDonalds.

One more big issue...apt4rpm on Redhat 9 appears broken. It royally screwed up my rpm database, and it took me hours of trying to get it to work before I finally gave up. If the apt4rpm website actually held contact info I'd report this as a bug. Too bad really, because I really liked it before.

Speaking of McDonalds, I'm colecting derogatory names for the place and their products. Some examples:

- Raunchy Ronnies
- McPukes
- The Big Puke
- McVomit

I don't know why I find this so funny. I still have their chicken sandwich on occasion.