Hide Forgot
PS I used the latest boot.img from the errata (it mentioned something about "fixing" a bug when upgrading from a partition that is also mounted, not thus). The install program fails (Error: Device or resource busy, when trying to mount /) when trying to UPGRADE from a partition on your harddisk under certain circumstances. I have reason to believe that these circumstance are: Using a two level mount depth (ie: /, /usr and /usr/local on different partitions), possibly related to the order they are listed in /etc/fstab The actual problem is that after scanning for packages (can't read that line very well, it disappear again quickly, but its the first time that the screen stays blank a few seconds), it asks again if I have SCSI (I dont) and then (or also before?) tries to mount / while it is *still* mounted (and fails). Possibly, but this is only a guess, it tries to umount in the wrong order: First /usr, which fails because /usr/local is still mounted, and then /usr/local and then /, which fails because /usr is still mounted. Anyway, / still being mounted makes that mounting it again fails, and thus the upgrade (you have to ALT-F2 and umount /mnt by hand; hmm, can't remember I had to umount anything else). There is a second problem with mounting that happens after this (umounting manually). I got an error: /dev/hda14 already mounted: adding symlink followed by: Failed to add symlink: /mnt//usr/src already exists. (These are not literally, I retype them from my head). The problem here is that I did put the packages (rpms) on /usr/src/RedHat/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/, which is also mounted because it is listed in /etc/fstab. Note that /usr/src is /dev/hda14. I am not sure if it first mounts /tmp/hdimage to hda14 and then /usr/src, or vica versa - but when one of those fails it tries to add a symlink which fails because /tmp/hdimage exists as directory (and not /mnt//usr/src if you 'd ask me, as the error says). Removing this empty directory (/tmp/hdimage) by hand and retrying "solves" the problem, I still had to mount everything else again by hand then because it had umounted most partitions again. Hopefully this can be fixed in RedHat-7.0, although I realize that you are not making money when people upgrade from a harddisk partition (as opposed to the CD). Thanks, Carlo Wood
The upgrade is failing because you are pulling the source files from a partition which is listed in your /etc/fstab, and which will possibly be needed during the upgrade (if you are upgrading the kernel-source package, then it will need to write to /usr/src) Try putting the source files somewhere else and that should fix the problem.