On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Axalon Bloodstone 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)
During the install? It doesn't even ask for mount points.. I'm assuming
it's reading /etc/fstab for where everything belongs...
> B: link /mnt/home/mandrake to /tmp/rhimage before it starts copying files.
Ok, I'll give this a shot...
> > 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
Oh... I thought it was going to be a part of Cassini? Also, I noticed
that 6.1 is being refered to as Helios? Just curious, but which is
correct (or is Helios the "beta" name?).
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