On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 09:29:52AM +0100, Breathnach, Proinnsias(Dublin) mentioned:
> Dunno about the problems you're having ... but there's another upgrade issue
> I've been seeing, if I try to upgrade my RH6.0/'98/NT/BeOS box the upgrade
> falls over trying to find my last version !
>> It trys to mount /dev/hda1 as Linux native and falls over (not suprising
> considering that /dev/hda1 is NT), it doesn't try anywhere else and I have
> to use the 'vulcan nerve pinch' to get anywhere (ALT-F2 etc don't work !)
>> By comparison the 5.2 -> 6.0 upgrade went fine !
>> Any suggestions ??
Ah yes. I had that problem too - some partitions it just wasn't happy
about - even ones that were ext2 or iso9660 & weren't in my /etc/fstab
Quickest dirtiest hack is to change the partition types with fdisk to be
QNX or FAT16 or something.
Kate
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