My workstation has the following disk partition setup:

/dev/sda10         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda5                /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/sda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda3               /oldhome                   ext2    defaults 
    1 2
/dev/sda8             /opt                    ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda2             /usr                    ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda7        /usr/local              ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda11            /usr1                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda9              /var                    ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda6           /vmware                 ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda12              /usr2                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sdc5               /oldroot                ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc1               /oldboot  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc2               /oldusr  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc3               /home  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc6               /oldvmware  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc7               /oldusr/local  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc8               /oldopt  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc9               /oldvar  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdc11              /oldusr1  ext2 defaults     1 2
/dev/sdb1               /mnt-ntfs1              ntfs-3g    defaults 
    1 2
/dev/sdb2               /mnt-ntfs2              ntfs-3g    defaults 
    1 2

When I attempt to use the current SL 6.4 X86-64 standalone installation 
DVD to upgrade, anaconda fails with a diagnostic message that I cannot 
seem to be able to save (the log file is not created on a physical hard 
drive).  Basically, anaconda does not like the ntfs format disk nor the 
second linux disk.  Is there a way to tell anaconda to use a particular 
drive (say /dev/sda) and fully ignore others (say /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc) 
when running anaconda?  Can anaconda be run from the DVD from a running 
linux system that mounts the DVD containing the upgrade image(s)?  If 
not, is there another methodology (say an appropriate invocation of yum 
but using the DVD as the files from which the upgrade is generated)?

If there is URL or other documentation that (easily) explains the above 
steps, that will be sufficient.

Current environment is a previous SL 6 X86-64.

Yasha Karant