<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> I want it to upgrade a copy of RedHat8 but Anaconda can't mount the partition it's in, even though other software does. The target hard disk: /dev/hda1 - RedHat8 (whole filesystem) /dev/hda2 - swap Whenever RedHat8 boots hda1 gets mounted ; you can also mount it under knoppix. Anaconda detects RedHat8's presence and asks if I want to upgrade rather than do a fresh install. Saying yes gets error message: "Error mounting device hda1 as /: invalid argument", the conjecture the partition probably isn't partitioned, and an OK button to reboot (no choice). At that point, if I use the anaconda feature to get an install log (ctrl-alt-F4) I see it tried to mount /dev/hda1 on /mnt/sysimage. Then if I use the anaconda feature to get a root prompt (ctrl-alt-F2) and execute "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/sysimage," it mounts fine. But it's too late to proceed. The OK button will only reboot. This happens with multiple installation disksets (RedHat9, Fedora2, and Fedora3). And with 2 different hard disks, the second a functionally identical (rsync'd) copy of the first. It happens with whichever diskset, on either hard disk. How do people perform upgrade-type installations? Any ideas what's wrong in these cases of mine? </body> </html>