Upgrade To FC 7: Unable to mount /tmp

[Ed Greshko]

Ben Mohilef wrote:
> We are trying to upgrade an old hunk'o'junk dual athlon box from FC5 to 
> FC7 using a DVD. Unfortunately the installer claims that it can not mount 
> /dev/hda15 as /tmp and aborts. /tmp mounts nomally on FC5 ( not nosuec 
> or noexec) and I can't find any unusual attributes. It fscks cleanly as do all 
> the other partitions.
> 
> There are a spectacular dearth of diagnostics here. The FC5 works 
> flawlessly.   Has anyone else seen this problem? Am I overlooking the 
> obvious somewhere? A clean install is just not practical on this box. 

I don't know if you are overlooking anything...but have a suggestion that
may get you around the issue.

Why not change your FC5 installation to not use a mounted /tmp partition
since that partition won't have anything updated anyway.  Then after the
upgrade manually add /tmp back in.  Of course, at that time the drive will
be a "scsi" device.