FC2 & Via CPU

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 14:59, Dalibor Malek wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Thank you for your Answer but I still have a little problem.
> 
> These are the steps
> 1) Download
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.6-1.383.i586.rpm
> 
> 2) burn it on to a CD as a file on its own call it KERNEL RPM CD
> 
> 3) Download http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/c3boot.iso
> 
> 4) burn this on to a CD as a CD image, call it C3 BOOT CD
> 
> 5) boot off C3 BOOT CD
> 
> 6) at the first menu swap in the normal FC2 CD1 and install FC2
> 
> 7) on install completion, boot again off C3 BOOT CD... but...
> 
> 8) type linux rescue at the grub prompt
> 
> 9) when it is finished booting, type chroot /mnt/sysimage
> 
> 10) swap in the KERNEL RPM CD
> 
> 11) mkdir mymount
> 
> 12) mount /dev/hdc mymount -t iso9660
> 
> 13) cd mymount
> 
> 14) rpm -Uvf kernel-2.6.6-1.383.i586.rpm
> 
> 15) type exit (I think) to reboot
> 
> Well everything is working and done until I get to step 12.
> Step 12 is not functioning, The system says something like mymount is 
> already in use or hdc is already mounted. Both is wrong hdc is not 
> mounted (I can't unmount it), and mymount is not in use cause I can 
> delete it.

mount the CD before you do the chroot:

8.5) mount /dev/hdc /mnt/sysimage/mnt/cdrom

13)  cd /mnt/cdrom

Forrest