I downloaded the Mandrake 7.2 iso's and wrote them out using
cdrecord.  Since I checked the md5sums and no errors were
reported so I am guessing the cd write is good.  Any way here is
the senerio:

I have and old cyrix machine with Mandrake 7.1, kernel
2.2.15 installed.  The file system is reiser and the cdrom
is a smart and friendly scsi.  Since I can not boot of the
cdrom, I used dd to write out hdreiser.img to a boot disk.

I boot from the disk just fine and get into the install
program.  When I tell it to install from a local scsi cdrom
it probes, finds the cdrom and then returns that it can not
mount /dev/sd0 ??  Shouldn't the device be scd0?  I
dismissed it as a typo, but it might not be.  So I tried the
following:  
Rebooting, hitting F1,  typing in text expert
selecting hard drive install and pointing to the partition
/dev/hda8 and dir /home/iso/ then selecting iso, it tells me
image can not be found.  So I appended it to
/home/iso/Mandrake72-inst.iso.  Same result.

I then copied did cp -R on Mandrake from the cd to /home.

Tried another install this time pointing to the /home and
/home/Mandrake dir for an install from the hard drive.  It
returns no Mandrake install tree found.

Has anyone upgraded a reiser file system on Mandrake
to 7.2 sucessfully?  Is it possible that the hdreiser.img
boot disk isn't "seeing" the reiser file system on the hard
drive? I am at a loss as to where to take it from here.  Any
thoughts, suggestions or comments (helpfull  ones please)

Jerry S.



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