On Friday 21 November 2008 14:51:55 Adam Pribyl wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I installed a newer version of preupgrade by temporarily
enabling
> the fedora-updates-testing and fedora-updates-testing-newkey repos
> (it seemed to be necessary to include both).
> The new preupgrade tried to install what it called
> "Upgrade to Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Beta" but this failed.
> I'm not quite sure why (I was doing this remotely)
> but I'll try to find out exactly what the error is.
>
> Just to be clear - I can run preupgrade on a standard Fedora-9 system?
> I've run it successfully on several machines,
> but they were already running testing versions of Fedora.
preupgrade-0.9.9-1.fc9
This should work, but please choose Fedora 10 Preview. Beta is older..
Thanks for the suggestion.
I tried this, but it still fails, with the error:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Unable to download the kickstart file.
Please modify the kickstart parameter below
or press Cancel to proceed as an interactive installation.
d:UUID=4d2cc...726d:/upgrade/ks.cfg
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This is the correct UUID for /dev/sdb2 , the /boot partition.
I'm not sure what kickstart parameters there are?
The only unusual thing about this computer, I think,
is that it has 2 SCSI disks .
Incidentally, I thought the UUID referred to a disk rather than a partition.
But I see that /dev/sdb3 has a different UUID.
As always, any suggestions or advice gratefully received.