On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, David J. Christini wrote: > I'm running Mandrake 5.3 (kernel 2.2.3). In the past I've successfully > used the upgrade procedure to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 and from 5.2 to 5.3. > > However, today when I tried to upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0 (using boot.img and > the Mandrake distribution off of a hard drive partition), I ran into > several errors The differences between 5.3 and 6.0 are MUCH bigger than the differences between any previous releases. If you want to be safe, you're probably best off reinstalling. > comps Error: package emacs at line 1900 does not exist Your mirror is incomplete. > During "Rebuilding RPM database": > Error: Failed to create symlink for package source > Error: error mounting filesystem: Invalid argument Probably the same problem - seems a more important package than emacs was missing, as well. > I don't think the emacs error is any big deal It isn't - but it may be a symptom of a big problem (incomplete/broken mirror). LLaP bero
