From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12 Description of problem: I'm not even sure this is anaconda but there's no "INSTALLER" in the drop-down. 1) Using the new RHEL4 iso, I'm trying to upgrade my RHEL4 installation, preserving /hdb which mounts as /home. The installer thinks /dev/hdb1 is ntfs. Using Alt-F2 to give me another shell, I ran "fdisk /dev/hdb" and "P" shows '/dev/hdb1' to be 83, Linux. I did this because I want a clean install. Yesterday I upgraded from RHEL AS 3 -> RHEL AS 4 and now I want to try a "clean" install preserving /home. 2) The text installer "highlighting" is reversed on selecting install vs. upgrade. 3) On the "full" install, there's no way to preserve any of the partitions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): don't know How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 3 AS 2. Upgrade RHEL 3 AS -> RHEL 4 AS 3. Try to delete SOME partitions (in my case preserve /dev/hdb1 as /home). Actual Results: No possibility to preserve partitions, or the installer now thinks type 83 Linux partition is NTFS. Expected Results: A new install, but preserving /home. Additional info:
On the "full" install, what did Disk Druid show for the various partitions? You should have been able to select "autopartition" or "manually partition using Disk Druid" The second option should have allowed you to select /dev/hdb1 as /home and not format it (in order to preserve it.) Has Windows every been on that drive? I'm trying to figure out why something would have thought it was NTFS.
I am uncertain which screen is actually disk druid any longer. On the screen I think is disk druid, I can select auto or manual partition and I can choose to NOT format /dev/hdb1, but I can't select it since something thinks it's NTFS. Since this is a Dell OptiPlex, it may have had Windows on it at some time. The company I bought it from had RedHat 8 or 9 on it, however, and I've put FC1, RH9, RHEL AS 3, and now RHEL AS 4 on it (in that order). I think this could be some oddness in the LV manager. Before I started "clean" last night, I formatted / dev/hda1 and was able to mount /dev/hdb1 as /home by hand. I couldn't mount /dev/hdb1 until I explicitly told it that the disk was ext3; mount thought it was ntfs.
If you run parted on /dev/hdb, what does it show the filesystem type as?
Unfortunately, I couldn't wait and I let the installer do its thing, destroying all the old data. To clarify something in Comment #2, using "mount /dev/hdb /home" gave me errors telling me it was an ntfs system, but "mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb /home" worked fine.
Without more information here, there's not much I can do. There was probably some stale metadata leading to parted being confused, but without getting that information, it's basically impossible to fix.
OK. I hoped this was reproducible, but I couldn't leave the system the way it was. Not every company has spare hardware sitting around. This does not speak well of RedHat, either.