VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:28:07 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:
[...] 
>> Fwiw, when I tried to mount the partition that CentOS apparently has to
>> be on, I got a response from mount saying "special device /dev/
>> VolGroup00/LogVol00 does not exist." That's what has me thinking
>> "hosed."
> 
> Ah - that's different!  That's not a partition, it's a logical volume,
> and it may be there but simply expected to be mapped to a different
> device by Ubuntu.  My logical volumes are under /dev/mapper/.  There
> would be a number of possible problems there - I found booting from an
> LVM too much trouble to learn, though I'm sure it's possible; and it's
> possible that the LVM CentOS is using is incompatible with the one
> Ubuntu is using, so it may never be possible to access one from the
> earth.

>>>> Any hints on getting the second one to recognize the first, and the
>>>> third to recognize both others?
> 
> I'd start by looking to see if there's anything under /dev/mapper.

	I got into /dev/mapper; it contains three items, all given under 
Nautilus's Properties as containing 0 bytes and belonging to root : 
control is x-special/device-char and the two LogVol ones are -block.
 
>> Incidentally, how is Ubuntu for up*grading* online?
> 
> Simple.  Either Ubuntu or Kubuntu will put a little icon in the system
> tray (like "Windows Update"! but far less annoying).  Click on it, and
> that's all there usually is to it.  For the more adventurous: "sudo
> aptitude dist-upgrade" works for standard updates within a release, but
> sometimes gets complicated for upgrading to a new release.

	So instead of wiping 6.06, burning a new CD, and installing it, I 
could likely just upgrade? Or is the mess I've made of going to be made 
worse instead of fixed?

>> I want to thank you profusely for your patient efforts so far.
>  
> Hah!  I've got no patience, but you're welcome :-)

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
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