Sounds like a specific problem in upgrading from 6.0 to 7.0, especially seeing as the hang always occurs at the same place in the install. As for not losing any data. if you can boot the system as it is, you can always move any of your files over to one of the other partitions, or even back over onto a Windows partition if you still have any. This is one of the reasons why I have a seperate partition for /home. I can re-install the OS as often as I like and it's fairly trivial to reconfigure stuff. I'm afraid that a full re-install will tash anything you have under your / partition. Anyone else in here performed an upgrade to 7.0 rather than a full install. Denis (or anyone from Mandrake) - have you had any reports of the upgrade process hanging like this - I would have thought tha the installation merely copies files over the top of existing stuff, or does it do hardware detection on an upgrade as it does on a full install? I can't see why installing a particular library would cause this kind of problem though - If you can boot the system, bring it up in single user mode (rather than entering linux or whatever at the LILO BOOT: prompt, enter 'linux 1' When you get to the console prompt, try running fsck on all of your partitions to make sure they are all free from errors. You could also try uninstalling the GNU C libraries with rpm and then re-attempting the installation.... I suspect you have something screwed on your drive - bad blocks. Are you overclocking your machine? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst BARDIAUX Laurent SICoR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22/02/2000 17:00:19 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (IPM Return requested) (Receipt notification requested) cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: RE: [newbie] updating mdk 7 -> blue sc
When the system hand, there is no more activity (cannot switch to another console or ctrl-alt-sup to shutdown). It append always at the same position. For the last question, how can i do if i dont want to lose data. (i have 2Go for /, /usr and /usr/local on distinct partition) ps : sorry for my bad english. -----Message d'origine----- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 22 février 2000 17:50 À: newbie Objet: Re: [newbie] updating mdk 7 -> blue sc Any error messages or just a straight "nothing is happening - no activity" type of hang? Always at the same position in the install? Is it possible to install 7.0 directly over 6, rather than try to update the installation? Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst BARDIAUX Laurent SICoR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22/02/2000 14:49:32 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (IPM Return requested) (Receipt notification requested) cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: [newbie] updating mdk 7 -> blue screen of death When updating my old 6.0 to 7.0, the system hang when trying to install gnu C library. Any idea ?