I had a similar problem when installing over a SUSE 10.1 installation. It turned out to be a problem with the naming of a Volume group with a dash "-" in the name. Some of the previous threads have addressed this issue I believe. Does your previous linspire installation use volume groups?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dr. Diesel</b> <<a href="mailto:dr.diesel@gmail.com">dr.diesel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
No reiserfs, I was surprised! Linspire (I bought it only for the<br>cheap $149 hardware!) apparently uses one partition, ext3 only!<br><br>On 10/8/06, Dave Jones <<a href="mailto:davej@redhat.com">davej@redhat.com</a>
> wrote:<br>> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:45:45PM -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:<br>> > Thanks Dave, ctrl-alt-f1 provided this, hope I typed it correctly!<br>> ><br>> > The PC is a Linspire. This is the exact one, I was attempting to
<br>> > install over it! It dumps at detecting previous versions.<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4714029?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG">http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4714029?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
</a><br>> ><br>> > Screen Dump:<br>><br>> The trace looks familiar. Do you have reiserfs partitions?<br>> If so, this has already been fixed.<br>><br>> Dave<br>> --<br>> <a href="http://www.codemonkey.org.uk">
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