I have this in my fstab: /dev/hdg1 /mnt/hdg1 ext3 rw 0 0 /mnt/hdg1/local /usr/local none rw,bind 0 0 /mnt/hdg1/local/var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm none rw,bind 0 0 /mnt/hdg1/local/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt none rw,bind 0 0 /mnt/hdg1/local/var/cache/yum /var/cache/yum none rw,bind 0 0 The FC3 upgrade will not mount these last three directories. (I think that /usr/local is mounted, but I don't actually remember.) The result is a nearly a complete failure to upgrade because no packages are found and hence none are upgraded. (A few packages are installed by default and the system might have booted had not I had SCSI driver problem (see my previous email.) The workaround (for me) was to delete a bunch of stuff in /var, and then to copy the RPM database files from /mnt/hdg1/local/var/lib/rpm to /var/lib/rpm. I think that a Fedora core upgrade should honor the users intentions as captured by the mounts in /etc/fstab, i.e. mount all possible drives. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014
