On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:06 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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. Well, I do have a spare USB-based hard drive. I guess I could do that. In fact, I have a 16GB FLASH drive. Now THERE'S a thought... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - You know the old saying--any technology sufficiently advanced is - - indistinguishable from a Perl script - - --Programming Perl, 2nd Edition - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
