Re[2]: 6.2 Upgrade problem

[Jeff CTR Vandenbussche tc faa gov (Jeff CTR Vandenbussche)]

Clay,

I am getting similar anaconda errors during a 6.2 kickstart install (see my 
prior postings from 6/2 and 6/5).  I tried using the same boot.img and 
update.img you did.  My system was able to read the update disk, but I still got
the same errors.  I created my update disk using the dosutil rawrite from the 
6.2 CD.  You may want to try that.

Jeff

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Subject: Re: 6.2 Upgrade problem
Author:  Clay Spence <specarty mindspring com> at INTERNET-ACT
Date:    6/5/00 2:38 AM


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
     
     
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