On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Vincent Danen wrote:
> I tried doing an upgrade to v6.1 via HDD install using a mirror of 6.1 on
> the local drive (locally it's in /home/mandrake on /dev/hdc6). I pointed
> to the correct drive (/dev/hdc6) and gave it a directory of /mandrake and
> it installed the second-stage ramdisk and all that, asked me which
> packages to select/upgrade and so forth, but when it came time to upgrade
> the RPMs themselves, it reported that it couldn't find the RPM for every
> single package selected. I've generated an hdlist in
> /home/mandrake/Mandrake/base after the mirror so I'm not sure where I'm
> going wrong. I'd rather not burn a CD as I tried a pre-fab iso (the one
> announced in here a few days ago) and nothing would run on the CD, so I'd
> prefer not to throw CDs away and figured I'd try it this way... any idea
> why this isn't working? Should I point it to the directory
> /mandrake/Mandrake?
A: don't specify a mount point for /home and handle it later manualy (cp
-a /home/ftp /mnt/home && cp -a /home/httpd /mnt/home)
B: link /mnt/home/mandrake to /tmp/rhimage before it starts copying files.
> Also, where's the gui installer? I made a boot floppy from
> images/boot.img and it's the regular text installer (altho I do like the
> new package-selection layout).
Being tested in the cooker project
> Very interested in trying out the upgrade but this has me a little
> stumped... =(
>
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