Re: Fedora 7 does NOt see Fedora 6 installation!!!

I have a guess that it confused my USB drives (/dev/sd*) with scsi
drives and looked at them for Fedora install. 5B

I will disconnect all USB drives, comment out their FS entries, and
will try gain.

i

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:58:29 -0500, Ignoramus2277 <ignoramus2277@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my home Fedora Core 6 machine to Fedora 7. I
insterted my DVD, ran it. After "detecting previous installations" and
selecting language, The install process does NOT offer me an
opportunity to reuse the existing setup. It seems that it does not
notice any existing installations!

The only choices are to reformat everything and some other strange
destructive choices.

I was able to successfully upgrade my laptop before, so something
special is wrong. How can I force Fedora 7 to recognize the old
system. Here's my mounts

$ mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /data4 type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /spare type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb6 on /data5 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda8 on /data6 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdh1 on /mnt/4gb type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sde5 on /mnt/work-backup type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
localhost:/.cfsfs on /mnt/crypt type nfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,port=3049,intr,nfsprog=1092830567,nfsvers=2,addr=127.0.0.1)
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