On 15 Apr 2003 14:02:32 -0500,
Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2/installer/forRH-9.0-SGI-XFS-1.2.0-v0.iso
>
>This comes to you with the basic "works for me" support agreement.
>Please download it and give it a try and report success or failures,
>and we may or may not fix problems.
I copied the RH 9 CDs to an XFS partition on the system that I was
trying to upgrade from RH 8.0 to RH 9. I booted the RH 9 XFS installer
and typed 'linux upgradeany askmethod text'. When it asked me for the
method, I selected hard disk, then selected the partition and directory
within that partition that contained the copies of the RH 9 CDs. The
XFS installer refused to recognise the partition and/or directory.
From the error messages, it looked like the installer was only trying
VFAT and EXT2 as the partition types, there were no messages for XFS
mounts. My suspicion is that installing from a hard disk is done using
only vfat and ext2, before the XFS module has been loaded.
Unfortunately there was no shell on ALT-F2 at this point so I could not
confirm if the XFS module was loaded or not. In the end went through
the CD shuffle instead of using the CD copies on the hard disk.
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