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

Ignoramus2277 wrote:

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.

Note that you will have to use labels for all your drives
if you want to upgrade, in /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf .
Eg instead of /dev/hda3 for / you'll have to label the drive,
say as /, and give LABEL=/ in place of /dev/hda3 in fstab,
and root=LABEL=/ in grub.conf .

However, this would not have stopped your FC-6 being found.
Your explanation for this sounds plausible.

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