On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Pete Geenhuizen pete@geenhuizen.net wrote:
I just ran the pre-upgrade, and it said that I couldn't do an in place upgrade for the following reason:
"/usr directory is on separate partition. In-place Upgrade is NOT possible."
Well that was news to me because I never separate /usr, so what is going on? It apparently turns out that /usr/local is on a separate partition and the software isn't smart enough to realize that there's a big difference between /usr and /usr/local, so I'm guessing that that is the reason.
I sure do hate software that makes lame or at worst incorrect assumptions, almost as bad as when you change a config file and comment out the default line and add you duplicate the line with changes, and the software is too dumb to realize what you did.
You should be able to just unmount /usr/local and take it out of fstab for the duration of the upgrade then put it back and fix the contents later. But, that sort of thing makes a bare-metal reinstall sound even more sensible since it shows how many options there are and how many they may not have considered.