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jhearon
14th July 2009, 04:50 AM
Somehow the install iso disc won't go into upgrade mode. My f10 is on the hard disk, but needing to be rescued. I would do f11 upgrade; but can't get the disk to do an upgrade. It only wants to install.

Anyone happen to know what's stuck? Checksum was good, etc. iso is fine. Is there a log file or something which it keeps getting hung up on, thinking it's supposed to install instead of upgrade which I could change or delete?
tquang
14th July 2009, 07:44 AM
You need full install disc (DVD only)

Please download file iso for DVD about 3,7 - 4 G
jhearon
14th July 2009, 08:30 AM

yes that's what I'm using.
Gödel
14th July 2009, 09:09 AM
Do you mean the upgrade option is greyed out? If it doesn't list anything to upgrade then it can't find the existing F10 installation.

Save your important docs and do a new install.
jhearon
14th July 2009, 06:13 PM
The upgrade option is available. The iso just doesn't go in that direction. It tries to install instead of upgrading. I tried renaming the root/upgrade.log, but it still tries to do an install instead of an upgrade. This was after one unsuccessful upgrade which balked in the middle of dependencies. With fresh iso, it won't attempt the upgrade anylonger. Trying to figure out what files may need to be removed from first attempt to get it to try the upgrade again.
FlyMyPG
18th July 2009, 05:19 AM
It seems F11 Anaconda is badly broken and is sometimes unable to find an existing root on F10 systems having / on a RAID or LVM volume. One applicable bug is 499321.

This affects F10->F11 upgrades using both preupgrade and DVD upgrade.

I have yet to find any workaround for this, as ones mentioned in the relevant bugs either never worked or no longer work.

Anyone else have any clues?
jhearon
19th July 2009, 07:40 PM
I noticed that on f10 recently too when trying to roll back from f11.
Nokia
19th July 2009, 09:33 PM
Do you mean the upgrade option is greyed out? If it doesn't list anything to upgrade then it can't find the existing F10 installation.

Save your important docs and do a new install.

This is by far the safest thing to do. Backup /home and /etc if having some custom settings in it, do a clean install and a full update afterwards, including the testing repo. When all is running fine restore the files to your new /home