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Re: 3.0.3 to 4.0 harddrive update woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Wed Oct 23 16:03:38 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:57:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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Where are the packages coming from (hard drive? cd? ftp?)? What's your
current fstab look like?
Erik
On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, David Whiting wrote:
>
> I've searched the archives and FAQs but haven't run across my problem
> yet.
>
> I booted with the bootdisk, changed to the supplemental disk when
> prompted. Got the following on the screen:
>
> 294 blocks
> in second stage install
>
> The install-or-upgrade screen appeared, I selected upgrade. I
> answered "yes" to scsi adaptors (I actually have 2: one narrow ncr-pci
> with a cdrom and 2GB HD, and an adaptec 2940W with 2 1GB wide drives)
> and selected the ncr and autoprobe. It scanned the disk and found my
> linux partitions:
>
> /dev/sda3
> /dev/sda4
>
> I selected my old root partition, /dev/sda3, and got the following
> error screen
>
> Mount Failed: no such device or address
>
> Acting like nothing happened, the install program continued and asked
> which partition the RedHat directory was in. After selecting
> /dev/sda4, I got a screen which said
>
> Scanning packages
>
> and then a load of error screens saying
>
> package XFree86 at line 308 dne
> package xfm at line 339 dne
> package xpm at line 340 dne
> package xpm at line 344 dne
>
> (and on and on)
>
> What am I doing wrong? The install can't be this hard, can it?
>
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