I have a problem.
Scenario:
I have a CentOS4.4 box that I want to upgrade to SL5.0. So I tried some
procedures on another box.
I should say that I have successfully installed SL5 on yet another box with no
glitches so I don't think it is the CD. In addition while I only had the
CentOS 4.0 disks to hand, since yum update immediately moves a box to 4.5 I
don't think this is an issue either.
I have tried (a) upgrading the CentOS box to start with to CentOS4.5 then went
through anaconda to try to upgrade:
1) yum update (to 4.5 - yum does this automatically)
2) copy down the rpm-conf from SL site for 4x-5 (are these two steps
necessary?)
3) Reboot (are these two steps necessary?)
4) rpm –force -Uvh this .rpm file
5) remove the CentOS repos files from the yum.repos.d directory
6) yum upgrade
7) Splash screens are CentOS, login screens are SL, KDE CentOS NW, CentOS 4.5
8) Use anaconda to upgrade the installation to SL5.0 - the partitions were not
reformatted.
9) Most of the CDs seem to be read very quickly except the last.
10) A missing file is reported on reboot!
Maybe this is because of the rpm --force so I tried to do yum upgrade CentOS
4.0 to SL4.x first a bit more carefully:
1) Reinstall CentOS4.0 and try to upgrade to SL 4.x first.
2) Copied down yum and yum-conf from 4.2-3 from SL site and moved to /home/jl
3) Move /etc/yum* /home/jl/old.yum/
4) Installed new version of yum-conf – now points to SL
5) yum update rpm
6) yum update yum
7) comment out any cron.daily yum update
8) yum update
9)Splash screens are CentOS, login screens are SL, KDE RedHat NW, CentOS 4.0
10)Try an anaconda update
11)linux upgradeany and select upgrade installation and update bootloader - ie
the partitions were not reformatted.
12)Failed on disk 2 – no reason displayed
13)reboot and shows SL5 (Boron) but X-server not set up – missing file stuff
again
So I gave up and tried a new install, reformatting all but /home and /data.
CD #1 installed with no glitches but it choked on CD2 - and this has happened
twice now, the first time after it couldn't find the security repos so I did
it without asking.
On CD #2:
Box titled "Error running transaction"
with commentary
"There was an error running your transaction, for the following reasons:"
but nothing is added.
There is a red no-entry blob and only "Reboot" is offered for action and below
the progress bar is the text:
"Installing Deployment_Guide-en-US-5.0.0.21.noarch (9MB)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - Beta"
Ctl-Alt-F1: "Starting graphical installation..."
as you would expect.
Alt-F2: sh-3.1#
obviously a shell that I can type on
Alt-F3:
Last 4 lines are (plus time and INFO prefix):
Preparing to install packages
switchinng from CD [1] to 1 for ('slrn', 'i386', '0', '0.9.8.1pl1', '1.2.2')
Initial install time estimate = 28.7864289153
switching from CD [1] to 2 for ('nedit', 'i386',' '0', '5.5', '10.el5')
Alt-F4:
Last 5 lines are (previous 5 also the same)
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
<4>Unable to load NLS charset itf8
<4>Unable to load NLS charset itf8
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
<6>SELinux: initialized (dev hdc, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts
Alt-F5:
Last 3 lines are:
tune2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Alt-F6 of course returns to the installation screen showing the red
blob...:-(((
Can anyone recall such a problem? Or direct me to a solution?
I have installed on this machine a number of times recently (although it has
been running RH8 for ages - it is a Dell PE600SC) and with the CDs too.
TIA
John
John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple
Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler"
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