On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:31 -0800, Jim wrote: > I have been trying to figure out how anaconda tells if a previous > installation is upgradeable, and am way over my head. Can anyone point > me in the right direction? It's a combination of a) being able to mount the filesystem, and b) finding an /etc/fstab on the filesystem c) looking in /etc/redhat-release and matching it against the product name for the tree[1] You'll find the actual code in partedUtils.py:Diskset.findExistingRootPartitions() Jeremy [1] Obviously passing 'upgradeany' on the kernel command line makes the last check not get used
