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From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
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Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: Anaconda question
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:46 -0700, James C. Bevier wrote:
I have tried to update a FC2 system with FC4 and FC3. Each release just
asks me what type of installation I want. I want to upgrrade, but that
does
not seem to be an option. What does anaconda look for to determine if
the
current system can be upgraded or not? Fedora-release and redhat-release
are in /etc and contains the information for Fedora Core 2. What do I
need
to do to get anaconda to let me do an upgrade?
What happens if you boot the installer with:
linux askmethod
Thomas
Trying "linux upgradeany" or "linux askmethod" gets me to the same install
page with no option to upgrade. The disk I am using is a copy of a 120 GB
disk. I mode the copy by creating identical partitions as the original and
then using "find . -name -mount -print | cpio -pdvm /new" from the /old
mounted partition. I ran on the new copy about three months and had no
problems. I tried to upgrade the 'old' disk and anaconda gave me the proper
upgrade option??? It was able to find the install. I did an 'fdisk -l' on
both disks and the partitioning is identical except for the size of the last
partition. The disks were from different manufactures, so there is a little
different in size. I coppied the 'new' disk back over the 'old' disk and
was able to do an update without problems. So, what does anaconda not like
about the new disk? I still have it, so I can try all kinds of stuff if
someone is interested in fixing anaconda so it sees the Fedora installed on
it.
Jim
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