Bug 87971
Summary: | Won't allow upgrade from 7.3 to 9 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Chris Dos <chris> |
Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-06-29 20:49:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Chris Dos
2003-04-04 03:18:20 UTC
Did you alter the contents of /etc/redhat-release? The RELEASE-NOTES mention that the OS detection is based on the contents of that file and if it is modified, upgrades may not available. Five months ago I did upgrade to 8.0, but I though 7.3 was still better, so I downgraded back to 7.3 which turned out to be a several hour task. But I made it happen. I looked at /etc/redhat-release and it contains the following: Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) The MD5sum is 17961197ff42549ed3935aacf438833c and that turns out to be the same value on a stock Red Hat 7.3 install. Red Hat 8.0 will find my previous installation find and offer to upgrade. Thanks for you help in this matter. I just tried the install again using the "linux upgradeany" when booting the install CD. RedHat 9 still could not identify my Red Hat installation and provide me with an upgrade option. If you use the upgradeany option does the dialog pop up saying it is looking for previous installations? I think so. I did it twice just to make sure I didn't mistype the "upgradeany" option. In the standard install without the "upgradeany" option, the dialog pops up saying it's looking for previous installations. You can delete this bug. I've moved to Debian. Thanks for you effort though. I appreciate it. |