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Re: upgrade to RH6.1 ?



On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 17:28:38 +0200, Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net> wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 04:39:51PM +0200, lior cohen wrote:
>
>> i'm trying to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 on a dual boot machine (with NT)
>> and for some reason the upgrade hangs when i choose upgrade in te
>> graphical installation .
>> i thought it has something to do with an extra NTFS partition, does
>> anyone know what i should do in order not to hang the upgrade and to
>> successfully upgrade to 6.1 ?
>
>I'd try the text mode; it supposedly contains less bugs.

Don't bother. the bug is in both the text mode, the graphical mode, or the
expert mode.

The only way to avoid the bug is to make sure there are no NTFS partitions on
any hard disk on the machine you are upgrading. Either use fdisk (The linux
program, not the MSDOS program with the same name!) to change the partition
type to something else, or make sure the disk is not seen (If you have more
than one IDE disk, disable unnecessary disks via the BIOS setup screen). You
must prevent the RedHat install program from seeing ANY NTFS partition on your
system.

I have written about this bug on the list about a month ago, and reported it
on the RedHat Bugzilla system, with a fix.

Ever since then, I get CC'ed approx. every 3 days, when yet another incident
is reopened on this bug, and a redhat support personnel solves this as
identical to bug no. XXXX (I wasn't the first to report it either).

Udi

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