Re: Attempted upgrade from 1.3.1
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
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> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
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> > Ran into a rebooting problem with my upgraded 1.3.1 system. I then
> > discovered that "update-modules --force" had to be run before rebooting.
>
> That's a good point.
>
> > Another problem emerged, the line that mounts the cdrom in fstab needs to
> > be "/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,usr,unhide" or some-such otherwise
> > the mounting of the cdroms fails halfway through the installation.
>
> What exactly does make it _fail_?
Once the upgrade was well underway the cdrom would be unmounted, but would
not remount. "mount /cdrom" would not work, but "mount /dev/hdc /cdrom"
would. Error message "error in line 7 of fstab" - the line with /cdrom.
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> AFAIK: "iso9660" could be "auto" as well (for those who burn ext2 CDs ;-)
> "ro" is implied by the kernel
> "noauto,user" is generally a bad idea for server systems
> "unhide" =?? never used it.
Probably over-kill, but it works. I will investigating further later.
> > I got an upgrade working nicely with a new stock kernel installed as the
> > final step. I plan to put all the pieces together and modify my CD
> > upgrade cook-book tomorrow.
> >
> > tetex failed to upgrade. My no. 2 system boots 1.3.1 sloooooowly.
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> Tetex is fairly complex, so I'm not very surprised. However this is not really
> "fatal", so a manual upgrade at a later time is the way to go. Should be
> documented.
I removed them in the last test, but didn't get round to reistalling.
>
The documentation could also suggest that tasksel be included in the
dselect installation.
I am about to do another upgrade and will play round with fstab.
Phil.
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