Topic: Serious 5.5 upgrading troubles

[Dominique Haes]

I first tried to upgrade from 5.1.2 with these results:

While checking the filesystems it said:

/dev/hda6 is mounted. fscksomething: cannot continue

This error drops you to a shell but there's no way to make it bypass the error
(well, I don't know of a way, but then again, I'm a rookie)

After that I tried a fresh 5.5 install which did even weirder stuff:
after rebooting and removing the CD it boots to a logon prompt. I have no clue as to which user I should logon with...

So I tried 5.0 again... fresh install: works like a charm
upgrade to 5.5: same as with the upgrade from 5.1.2

Once it passed by the error but...
this was only the start of a series of problems:
- no network access
- no websites
- tons of errors
- named flooding until it gets banned for the next 5 mins


Is there anyone that has a clue?

[Jon Blakely]

On the fresh install of 5.5 you must have configured for logon required. The logon username will be root and the password will be the one you set up when you went through the configuration process.

Jon

[Dominique Haes]

That's the problem. It never goes trough the config...

[Jon Blakely]

When you downloaded the iso for 5.5 did you verify the md5 sum to check that the download was ok.
It is possible you have a corrupted iso or a bad cd burn. It may also pay to re-format your hard-drive before trying again.

Jon

[Dominique Haes]

I did the check and did fdisk before every fresh install