FC2 install/upgrade problem

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:19, patemery at emerynet.net wrote:
> I have RedHat 7.2 on a system and it is a functioning stable system. I wish
> to upgrade to FC2 but I'm getting an error before the installation even gets
> started. I'm getting the following error.
> 
> <quote>
> Duplicate Labels
> 
> Multiple devices on your system are labelled /. Labels across devices must be
> unique for system to function properly.
> 
> Please fix this problem and restart the installation process.
> </quote>
> 
> I checked my fstab and I don't see the offending duplicate labels. Does
> anyone have any suggestions? Here is my fstab
> 
> [pat at heart core2]$ more /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda2               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> /dev/hdc2               /mnt/data1              ext2    defaults        0 2
> /dev/hdd1               /mnt/data2              ext2    defaults        0 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> \\dad\cdrive            /mnt/dad                smb     noauto,user,rw  0 0
> \\dad\jukebox           /mnt/jukebox            smb     noauto,users,rw 0 0
> 
> Thanks,
> Pat
A label is written to the partition table, if I remember correctly, and
therefore need not show up in the fstab file.

I would check the labels of the partitions in question.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>