On 11 July 2010 16:50, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/11/2010 09:03 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora >> 12 to Fedora 13. >> >> It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data >> from the internet and prompts me to reboot the PC. >> >> I reboot the PC and select "upgrade to Goddard" from the grub menu. >> >> After a while, I then get the message: >> >> "Unable to find any device of the type needed for this installation >> type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver >> disk." >> >> There's an option to choose a driver from a list. But the list as huge >> and seems to contain entries for all sorts of drivers - network cards, >> storage devices, probably others - I don't know what I should be >> choosing. >> >> Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong here? And what I can do >> to fix it. > > At the time you got this problem, were you fully connected to the network? > Probably not - right? I doubt it. I guess it had rebooted into anaconda's minimal Linux version which probably doesn't have networking support. > If so, I suspect it is looking for the driver to use for the network > instead of probing for the device by itself and selecting the right driver. But I don't understand why it would need a network connection. It's already downloaded all of the data that it needs. Dave... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
