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Eric Maes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble upgrading my current RH5.2 box to RH6.1.
> The environment:
>
>         PC with two hard disks, the first disk has two partitions, on the first
> (hda to Linux) is installed NT, the
>         second partition is an FAT partition (hdb to Linux) which I used as a
> file interchange mechanism.
>         The second disk (hdc) holds my current Linux RH5.2 installation.
>         Booting is done with LILO.
> I have the new boot and update disks from RH.
>
> Upon booting from the boot disk, I enter: linux updates.
> First question: in the instructions on the web site, it is said that the
> 'updates' disk will be asked for and that then the installation will
> continue as normal. I am not asked for this 'updates' disk and after
> booting, the loader loads the GUI stuff from CDROM (I have also tried it
> with the text mode installation with the same results).
> The procedure then identifies my keyboard and mouse and then I have the
> option to do a full install or an upgrade.
> After choosing 'upgrade", I get the following:
>
>         Error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1: Invalid argument
>

This is a problem with the RedHat boot disk: it just doesn't want to recognize NT
filesystem on the first drive.  I e-mailed to RedHat support about a month ago and
did
get a reply to try a new "update" image from there updates ftp cite.  The latter
didn't
work either.  After that I lost hope.

Welcome to the new economy of surging overloaded internet companies who have so
much money they even do not care about customers.

The only solution  I see is to rebuild the boot disk ourselves.  Maybe VA Linux
will stand up to this task since they are relatively new?

AK