Re: Cannot upgrade from FC6->F7. No upgrade option given in install screen.

Lou Spironello wrote:
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Jim Cornette wrote:
Lou Spironello wrote:
Thanks Jim for the idea.

Did that and still no option to install/upgrade, or detection of
fc6 before the partition screen.

Regards, Lou


Could it be that for some reason the installer does not encounter a
fedora-release package so it refuses to upgrade the system. This
happened to me once and no upgrade option was provided.


So check your installation for upgrade and verify that
fedora-release is installed. If it is installed and verifies, it
must be something to do with not recognizing your hard disk, so
back to the hunt.

Jim

Parted shows the culprit at the bottom:

(parted) print devices /dev/hda (164GB)
/dev/hdc (60.0GB)
/dev/hdd (123GB)
/dev/md0 (0.00B)

I'm not familiar with setting up raid or removing raid. Would rm /dev/md0 remove the raid information from the disk? Or could you choose the md0 device using the select feature of parted?

I'm curious and this is not at all recommended advice.

Jim


Excerpt from info parted:

2.4.15 select
-------------

-- Command: select DEVICE
Selects the device, DEVICE, for Parted to edit. The device can be
a Linux hard disk device, a partition, a software RAID device or
LVM logical volume.

Example:

(parted) select /dev/hdb

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