Re: Upgrade glitch

[Jan Carlson <janc iname com>]

Duncan Hill wrote:
> 
> Ran into an interesting glitch when doing an upgrade from 5.2 to 6.0.
> My fstab contained an entry that mounted the drive that I had the 6.0
> distribution on (hard drive install).  When the installer went to
> mount that partition on /tmp/hdimage, it failed miserably because it
> had already mounted the drive according to the fstab.  It then
> promptly unmounted all of the file systems.  Would have been nice to
> be able to manually unmount the offending partition and let the setup
> try again (or make the installer ask which partitions it can mount [
> with say an expert user toggle at the start]). Had to reboot, bring up
> 5.2, edit the fstab and reboot again..

Or manually mount the partition and edit /etc/fstab
from Alt-F2, umount and hit 'back' until you reach a screen
where you can resume.  No reboots that way.