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
