On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Pete Geenhuizen <pete at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com