[SLE] Cannot upgrade to 9.2

From: Marc Chamberlin (marcc_at_easystreet.com)
Date: 02/16/05

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    Hello -

    I have SuSE 9.1 running on my desktop and am trying to upgrade to SuSE
    9.2 unsuccessfully. My desktop is configured with 2 disk drives, the
    first drive and part of the second have a number of partitions which
    are used by Windows XP, and the second drive has two partitions for
    Linux, one for the swap and one for the rest. Approx 70gbytes are
    available for Linux.

    When I attempt to upgrade, during the automatic installation, I reach
    the point where YAST2 asks me what language I am using and I accept the
    selection for English. Shortly after that point I get a red box with an
    very UNHELPFUL error message - "An Error occurred during the
    installation" At which point I cannot proceed any further as the
    computer/mouse/keyboard is completely hung.

    Attempting to use the manual mode gets me a little bit more info... I
    get beyond the language settings, am asked to confirm driver activation
    settings for my Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI card (aic7xzxx), the hard
    disk controller, DM DM-MOD, DM-Snapshot at which point I got an error
    message about the partitioning for /dev/hda is not readable by "parted"
    My understanding is since my first disk drive is being used by Windows,
    this is ok and understandable and I simply click on OK to accept this
    fact and tell the installation to proceed. At this point I get the red
    dialog box telling me "An error occurred during the installation" and
    the computer again hangs and cannot proceed any further.

    I do not think the partition tables are in error since both Windows and
    SuSE9.1 work fine, but I got a suspicion that SuSE9.2 is not handling
    the partitioning configuration properly and getting confused about it.

    Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should proceed?

       Sincerely yours.... Marc Chamberlin... 

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