Re: 6.2 Upgrade problem

[Clay Spence <specarty mindspring com>]

Hello again,

About my trouble upgrading to 6.2, I had written:
<snip>
> up a window saying something like "reading package information", then
> "Finding packages to upgrade".  (Yes, I should have written that
> down.).  But it just stops at this point.  The anaconda traceback is
> (hand-typed, so there may be errors):
> 
> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py". line 125, in __call__
>   ret = apply(self.func, a)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 340, in nextClicked
>   next = self.currentScreen.getNext ()
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/examine.py", line 19, in getNext
>   self.todo.upgradeFindPackages (self.root)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 730, in upgradeFindPackages
>   packages = rpm.findUpgradeSet (self.hdList.hdlist, self.instPath)
> rpm.error: error during upgrade check

<snip>

> I tried using some floppy disk images I found on the redhat errata
> site.  These are supposed to fix some anaconda bugs in 6.s, but I got
> the same error.  Perhaps I didn't boot properly; there were some
> instructions about typing "linux updates" at the initial boot prompt and
> I may have mis-typed it.

I did.  Sorry about the confusion (on my part).  I probably typed "linux
update" or "upgrade" or something.  In any case, now during the process
it asks for the updates disk.  I insert it in the floppy drive, press
"OK", and it says it can't mount the floppy.  I see two possible causes:
1)  Since I have an LS-120 drive which is not at the standard floppy
interface (it's on the IDE controller instead, at /dev/hdd), the install
program doesn't find the updates floppy.  Or, 2) I did not make the
updates disk correctly.  "dd if=update-disk-20000419.img of=/dev/hdd"
didn't complain, but the resulting floppy gave the can't mount floppy
complaint.  (The resulting floppy also won't mount by hand.)  Just
copying update-disk-20000419.img to a fat12-formatted floppy also didn't
help.

Any suggestions?

Clay