At 11:54 AM -0700 5/25/07, Rick Stevens wrote: >Hi, gang. > >I've been hesitant to do this, but I have an Athlon machine still >running FC5 (simply because it worked and I didn't want to mess with >it). I've decided to take the plunge and put FC6 on it (like all my >other machines). So, I've backed up all the stuff I need, booted >the FC6 DVD and started the upgrade process. > >Everything's fine until it finishes the process of locating stuff to >upgrade. Then anaconda spits out a message saying it can't unmount >the DVD to continue the process and to verify I don't have anything >on a console that would hang it up. > >I've done that and no, there's nothing on any of the console screens >that have the thing in a state where it can't be unmounted. Even an >"lsof" shows that, however the damned thing will not unmount. > >I've tried this several times with "noapic", "hdc=nodma" and several >other boot options and it always sticks at the same place. Has anyone >else experienced this? I hesitate to do a full install since I really >don't want to lose this machine completely. It wouldn't be the end of >the world, but it could get a bit sticky. > >I suppose I could do a fresh install. I also suppose I could upgrade >off CD-ROM instead of DVD in case this is a DVD-specific glitch. I hate >having to sit there and swap CDs, though. Yes, I'm a lazy sucker! > >Any suggestions? Well, I generally boot from a rescue CD and do the uprade install from the ISO image on C:/, since I also have MSWindows and lots of space on C:/, so I haven't faced this issue. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
