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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
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What filesystem is used ?? (then you need to load that module if not present) Smartest would be ext2/"fat16/32" 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
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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
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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
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On Saturday 20 November 2004 06:28 pm, Johan Nielsen wrote:
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. Thanks, But I have tried this approach before. However, this doesn't update the base system because it is in use. So if you try to use YOU after the system update, it still recognizes it as a 9.1 system. Here is more info on that topic: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/thallma_you_oldpatches.html
-- Darrell Cormier Registered Linux user #370711 http://counter.li.org
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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? This exactly what I had happen on this XP3000+/512M box, hdc which was ATA133 160G (SuSE 9.0) it liked, hda 120G ATA100 (SuSE 9.1 /) it didn't
Darrell Cormier wrote: like and that was the one I wanted to upgrade. I rsync'd / on /dev/hda1 over to a brand new 160G ATA133 hdc1, it then ran the upgrade, but there was lots of stuff missing that it said it had installed. Next I did a New Installation without formatting the partitions and there just a few config things that had changed, but if you have a backup of /root and /etc, that's not a problem, though in my case, the changes needed were so slight, I just edited the stuff or used YaST to set things right. BTW, I also had the same problem upgrading a x86_64 XP3000+/512M 40G ATA100 HD laptop, 9.1 x86_64 --> 9.2 x86_64, but after a lot of playing around it worked, I don't think it was anything I did as I had been playing around, doing ALT-F2 or F4 and manually mounting the stuff, but that didn't stop the errors, just that it suddenly worked. On this box, I wasn't so lucky. On the P-II/333 64M laptop with 20G HD, a new install went silky smooth.
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