Weird update behavior on FC6 upgrade

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:54 AM -0700 5/25/07, Rick Stevens wrote:
>Hi, gang.
>
>I've been hesitant to do this, but I have an Athlon machine still
>running FC5 (simply because it worked and I didn't want to mess with
>it).  I've decided to take the plunge and put FC6 on it (like all my
>other machines).  So, I've backed up all the stuff I need, booted
>the FC6 DVD and started the upgrade process.
>
>Everything's fine until it finishes the process of locating stuff to
>upgrade.  Then anaconda spits out a message saying it can't unmount
>the DVD to continue the process and to verify I don't have anything
>on a console that would hang it up.
>
>I've done that and no, there's nothing on any of the console screens
>that have the thing in a state where it can't be unmounted.  Even an
>"lsof" shows that, however the damned thing will not unmount.
>
>I've tried this several times with "noapic", "hdc=nodma" and several
>other boot options and it always sticks at the same place.  Has anyone
>else experienced this?  I hesitate to do a full install since I really
>don't want to lose this machine completely. It wouldn't be the end of
>the world, but it could get a bit sticky.
>
>I suppose I could do a fresh install.  I also suppose I could upgrade
>off CD-ROM instead of DVD in case this is a DVD-specific glitch.  I hate
>having to sit there and swap CDs, though.  Yes, I'm a lazy sucker!
>
>Any suggestions?

Well, I generally boot from a rescue CD and do the uprade install from the
ISO image on C:/, since I also have MSWindows and lots of space on C:/, so
I haven't faced this issue.
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