Re: Fedora Core 2 update from original CD-ROMs

Anonymous — Sun May 15, 2005 5:32 pm

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:32 pm

RE: Fedora Core 2 update form original CD-ROMs

ryptyde — Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:29 pm

Author: ryptyde

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:29 pm

I installed extras from the installation CD's from the FC2 menu "applications>System Settings>Add/Remove Applications". You should see what is installed already and if you want to add any apps you will be prompted for an "install disc".

Fedora Core 2 update from original CD-ROMs

Lancer — Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:30 pm

Author: Lancer

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:30 pm

I decided to stick original CD-ROMs int oa Fedora Core 2 setup (boot from them) in order to add missing KDE etc. and then worry about updating through update managers after. However - when I go through the process it detects my install, but after I've selected to upgrade that install, I get an error message saying that it cannot detect the swap partition and will reboot the machine (so we go around in circles).

I was sure I had a swap partition - this thing was originally set to "auto install". Sure enough, as root I fire up parted and see...

Code:

Using /dev/hdb
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdb is
77545/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M.
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 99.914 primary ext3 boot
2 99.914 37910.742 primary ext3
3 37910.742 38166.679 primary linux-swap

...also funny it should be detecting as hdb instead of hda methinks.

The result is I can't update from the CD-ROMs as it gives up saying there's no swap partion.
Anyone know of a remedy?

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