On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Matt Nelson wrote:
> The Red Hat 6.1 installer is a bug-ridden mess.
>
> This is an update to my original post to redhat-list regarding problems
> with upgrading from Red Hat 6.0 to Red Hat 6.1.
[some snipping]
> It was suggested to me that the installer has problems with NTFS
> partitions, and that I should change the ID of /dev/hda1 from 7 to 17,
> do the upgrade, then switch it back to 7.
Yes, there is a bug in the installer if you have an NTFS partition.
This has been pretty well confirmed at this point.
> Well, this morning I tried the workaround. here's what happened:
>
> Graphical Install: The system got past the "searching for existing
> Red Hat installations" screen, but hung on
> "Finding packages to upgrade".
> Text Install: same thing.
>
> I switched to VC1, and saw some error messages:
>
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
This message is due to the fact that there is not a full install of
XFree in order to conserve space in the image.
> which was followed by a python traceback, the last entry of which was:
>
> /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py line 1155 in
> upgradeFindPackages
>
> out of curiosity, i switched to VC2 to check what was mounted:
>
> bash# mount
> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
> /proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> /dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> /tmp/cdrom /mnt/source iso9660 ro 0 0
> /tmp/hdb1 /mnt/sysimage/boot ext2 rw 0 0
> /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc proc rw 0 0
>
> odd thing, my root partition isn't mounted anywhere; no wonder it
> couldn't find any packages...
>
> By the way, will it give me a choice of which installation to upgrade?
> I have two different Linux installations installed, one on /dev/hdb3 and
> another on /dev/hdb4...
It has asked me which installation I wanted to upgrade every time I've
upgraded a machine with multiple installs on it. Which I've done quite
a few times from the first beta onward. The strange thing from the
listing of what you have mounted is it shows /boot as being mounted...
if that's the correct partition for /boot there is no way the installer
would have figured that out without looking at the /etc/fstab for the
actual root of the system. I seem to remember that even on my laptop
(which only has one distribution) it still asked if it had located the
proper filesystem for /. I'm guessing that you hit next quickly without
realizing it.
Jeremy
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