Ben Mohilef wrote: > We are trying to upgrade an old hunk'o'junk dual athlon box from FC5 to > FC7 using a DVD. Unfortunately the installer claims that it can not mount > /dev/hda15 as /tmp and aborts. /tmp mounts nomally on FC5 ( not nosuec > or noexec) and I can't find any unusual attributes. It fscks cleanly as do > all the other partitions. > > There are a spectacular dearth of diagnostics here. The FC5 works > flawlessly. Has anyone else seen this problem? Am I overlooking the > obvious somewhere? A clean install is just not practical on this box. 1. I think you should use labels for all your partitions. This is annoying, but you get into difficulty in Fedora-7 (Nb it is no longer called Fedora Core) if you don't use labels. 2. Some time ago (with RedHat 8 or 9) I had problems trying to use /dev/sda15 . At that time the install program would only accept 14 SCSI partitions. (Once installed, you could re-create /dev/sda15 .) But I doubt if that is any longer true. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
