preupgrade, some issues

[Josep Puigdemont]

El dv 02 de 05 del 2008 a les 12:57 +0300, en/na shmuel siegel va
escriure:
> Josep Puigdemont wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was testing preupgrade (F8->rawhide), and I hit a couple of problems:
> >
> > The first issues was that the hard drive units in F8 have a different
> > order in F9 (at least for my HW [1]), so /dev/sda in F8 becomes /dev/sdb
> > in F9, and this makes the installer complain that it doesn't find the
> > upgrade images.
> > I solved this changing sda6 to sdb6 in the following line
> > in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> > stage2=hd:sda6:/upgrade/minstg2.img
> > If I didn't change this anaconda would ask me for the location of the
> > ISO image, which seems to default to /upgrade/minstg2.img.
> >
> >
> > With the changes mentioned above, Anaconda starts (in text mode), and
> > goes on as to let me configure grub, but then it pops up the following
> > error message:
> > "Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem
> > with the generation of your install tree."
> > I can then choose to either "exit installer" or "retry". Every time I
> > hit "retry" the following error is printed on the console:
> > ERROR: Error running /usr/sbin/lspci: No such file or directory
> >
> > I used preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.
> >
> > /Josep
> >
> > [1]
> > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_c348ef55-d532-4197-afac-be8e3690c35e
> >
> >   
> I've been having the same problem as your second problem. See the above 
> thread "preupdate won't update". Are you also using volume groups?

In my case I only use ext3 partitions without LVM.

Following indications in your thread, I removed comps.xml (and
comps.xml.gz), and then the installer tries to retrieve the list from
the net, except that the network is not yet up, and it fails.
I did not manage to get an IP by executing dhclient from the command line, I'll try with static IP later (I need to install a router first).


/Josep