I'm trying to upgrade my old machine from 5.2 to 6.3.
I just put the CDrom back in and added a second HD.
When I tried to do the ugrade from .79 yast it said the CD was from another yast and to boot from
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Mike Kenzie wrote: the
boot disk. I did that then setup the swap partitions.
It searched the disk and then started the update.
it ends with a red screen and a error message on VT3
Error Open Output File, detail: 0 File systemCmd.cc line 530 YAST Return Code 256 (errno = 4)
Machine 1 hda is 202 meg, hdb 420 meg 8 meg RAM, 486-33
Well I reformatted both drives and put a 16 M swap on each then mounted the small drive as / and the larger one under /usr. I choose the minimal install and devel and it all fit.
I then started the install and again I got the RED screen of death. If this wasn't the third machine in the house I'd be very upset as it is I'm just frustrated that I wiped a good 5.2 install off the machine and now it's dead.
I get the RSOD and on VT3 I see the following message.
Error Open Output File, detail: 0 File systemCmd.cc line 530 YAST Return Code 256 (errno = 4)
Well I tried again and after loading the CD-ROM modules (sbpcd 0x230,1) it can't read from the cd. Has any one any experience installing 6.3 on an older machine with limited RAM and disk space? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq