Upgrade Sabayon without booting off liveDVD

[hexxamillion]

I really appreciate your instructions for installing without burning the ISO. I will try this. I burned the miniedition which I believe is 34f and I did come accross the issue with a couple of blocking, one of them being portage which I believe cannot be good. As I stated I will attempt the partition and download procedure.

[DontPanic]

I just got through trying the version of the HowTo that's in the Wiki, and it worked great.

Thanks for the tips.

BTW, I was able to use an extended partition just fine, although grub was actually located in a primary partition of an existing installation.

[pau1]

Are there any limitations to extlinux??? I'm trying to install it on my 2nd primary partition on hard drive 2 using the command

extlinux --install /mnt/isoroot

. The partition is ext2 formatted and 14 GB's in size. (Is the size to big for extlinux?) What i get is

/mnt/isoroot is device /dev/hdb2

which i'm guessing is an error. Extlinux is pretty unhelpful in telling my why the command failed.

I'm running the command in Ubuntu 7.10 and extlinux is version 3.16

[hexxamillion]

Maybe you already found the answer to this. I believe that is normal output, stating what the "device" is for that mount point verifying that it was sucessfully mounted. I could be mistaken because I'm not in front of my home machine right now to verify. I know that I mounted the ISO in the past following this procedure without any problems.

[kjslag]

Can someone post the link to the wiki with the instructions to install without burning a DVD?

EDIT:
found it
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... _The_Image

[DontPanic]

For clarification, I'd like to point out that the version that is in the Wiki follows a somewhat different procedure.

The procedure described in this post utilizes an application called syslinux to boot the DVD. The procedure described in the Wiki boot directly to the LiveDVD portion using grub.

I'm not sure of the advantages or disadvantages of either approach, but I wanted to clarify that there are differences in case anybody is popping back and forth between the two procedures and getting confused.

[Jogai]

I cant copy the files.

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cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /media/Recover/
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/boot/memtest': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/boot/sabayon': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/boot/sabayon.igz': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/16x16.fnt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/back.jpg': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/bootlogo': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/en.hlp': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/en.tr': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f1.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f2.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f3.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f4.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f5.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f6.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f7.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/f8.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.txt': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/langlist': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/langs': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/splash.rle': Input/output error
cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/README.txt': Input/output error


It occurs in both versions of the how to.

[DontPanic]

Basically, these errors are telling you that you computer is having trouble reading the DVD/CD drive.

If you still have the DVD image on your hard disk, you may want to mount that directly and then copy.

[Jogai]

I did that. I mounted my iso on /mnt/cdrom
I did a little research and i think loop is the problem:

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PC jogai # modprobe loop
FATAL: Module loop not found.
PC jogai #

[DontPanic]

Loop is built into the kernel in Sabayon, so you'll get an error trying to install it's module (which doesn't exist).

If you are getting these errors from an image file mounted on /mnt/cdrom, that would usually indicate a problem with the image file.

Have you done an md5sum on the image file?