Re: Anaconda question

["James C. Bevier" <jim jbsys com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas cameron camerontech com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
<fedora-test-list redhat com>
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