You're not alone Andy. I had the EXACT same problem when I attempted the
upgrade. I finally ended up doing a clean install.
At 12:37 AM 10/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I got a Linux-Mandrake 6.1 CD in the mail today, and I tried using it
>to upgrade from 6.0. No luck... and, for the record, I get EXACTLY the
>same problems when I use the 6.0 CD's upgrade option!
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>I go through the usual installation procedure.
>- Boot from CD
>- Press ENTER
>- Select keyboard, language, ...
>- Say no to PCMCIA
>- Ask to upgrade
>- Say no to SCSI
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>Then it claims to scan my disk. Then it asks about SCSI AGAIN! I tell
>it no again, and it tells me sixteen times that it can't mount since
>the disk is busy. Then it asks for my root partition. I say
>/dev/hda12 (which is correct). BUSY. I Alt+F2, unmount it (I find it
>mounted at /mnt/, according to /etc/mtab), and return. I say
>/dev/hda12, and it proceeds to scan my disk. It then comes up with an
>error message claiming it can't find an RPM database and as such cannot
>upgrade anything.
>
>Since the whole point of this CD is upgrading, I need to fix this!
>
>Now this is a guess, but hey, it may be the truth. Maybe it gives me
>this trouble since /var/ isn't part of the root partition but instead
>is its own partition.
>
>Hmm. That gives me an idea. I'll try again and manually mount /var/.
>
>But if this works, I've uncovered a Mandrake installer bug: If it can't
>find the RPM database on the root filesystem, it should ask for another
>partition to check.
>
>ALL help WILL be appreciated! I'm counting on you guys!
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>Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413
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