Sorry I've never done the upgrade trip .... I always backup important data/setup to another partition and make an install from scratch so I don't know if you can point to another source of installation for the upgrade. I suggest you try this one Start your 9.1 start Yast2 choose "source of installation" add the spot where you dumped 9.2 start system update. Lørdag 20 november 2004 23:44 skrev Darrell Cormier:
On Saturday 20 November 2004 07:11 am, Johan Nielsen wrote:
What filesystem is used ?? (then you need to load that module if not present)
Smartest would be ext2/"fat16/32"
I am using reiserfs. I actually have two problems (separate machines). One is as described in the original post. The other machine starts the install as expected. Then I select "Update ..." and when it reaches the spot where it asks which drive to update, I select hda2 (which it recognizes as a SuSE 9.1 system) and it responds that it cannot mount the root partition. I ask it to retry and it never can mount the partition. Anyone know how to get around this?
For convenience (please forgive if it is an inconvenience) I have left the original post below.
TIA, Darrell Cormier
Fredag 19 november 2004 19:40 skrev Darrell Cormier:
Has anyone done an install or upgrade from a hard drive local to the machine?
I am trying to upgrade a 9.1 box using it's local harddisk. I have the contents of DVD1 at /data/suse/9.2/install/ (built from a mounted iso image of dvd1). /dev/hda4 is mounted at /data. So when I boot using the 9.2 boot disk, at the boot manager (grub) screen I tell it installation, then I hit F3 to change the installation source. I select "Hard Disk". Then in the next dialog I put: Disk Device: /dev/hda4 Directory: /data/suse/9.2/install
For the above I get the following message: Could not find the SuSE Linux installation source. Activating manual setup program.
I have tried the following combinations and still get the same result:
Device | Directory /dev/hda | /data/suse/9.2/install/ /dev/hda | /suse/9.2/install/ /dev/hda | suse/9.2/install/ hda | /data/suse/9.2/install/
What am I doing wrong. Could not find any info while googling (maybe my search criteria is wrong). Tried searching SuSE sight for installation from hard disk, but didn't find it either. I have also tried installing from an nfs server but it only gets part way and craters with no recovery and it leaves me starting over. :-(
Thanks, -- Darrell Cormier Registered Linux user #370711 http://counter.li.org