Subject: Re: Problems upgrading 1.6 to 1.6.1
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From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/05/2003 10:23:37
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:52:21PM +0200, Frank Luedke wrote:
>
> I've downloaded the CDs and am now trying to upgrade
> from 1.6 to 1.6.1 but the upgrade system does not want
> to...
>
> I have two partitions; /dev/wd0a as / and /dev/wd0e as /usr.
> The upgrade system starts to check the partitions which seems
> to be OK (i am answering "mark filesystem as clean" with Y as
> there are no errors detected) but then it says
> "unable to mount /" and stops.
>
> Is there any way to "force" the upgrade? I have no internet
> access at the system I try to upgrade so I have to use the
> CDs and I do not want to make a re-install ;)
Did you boot from the CD? You need to.
sysinst will get terribly confused if the filesystems are already mounted.
David
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