5.3->5.4 (ia32) binary upgrade problem

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 10 17:07:51 PDT 2005


On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:06:38AM +0000, db wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 May 2005 23:44, you wrote:
> > > I have tried this with two cd's on two computers (both running 5.3).
> > > I've downloaded 5.4-disc1
> > > run /stand/sysinstall
> > > Upgrade (gives me a warning saying the cd is 5.4-release and what I have
> > > is 5.3-security) and then:
> > > "Unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0"
> > >
> > > So now what? My securelevel is -1 and all filesystems are mounted "rw".
> >
> > You need to run the 5.4 sysinstall (e.g. by booting the CD), not the
> > random old sysinstall you have installed that knows nothing about 5.4.
>  
> Ok thanks :-) .....I could be wrong but I think I did the 5.2->5.3 upgrade 
> like I wrote above :-S

Lucky you that it worked :)

Kris
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