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Fedora Core 7 Upgrade Issue



Downloaded the DVD iso.  Burned it w/o issue.  Trying to install on the laptop as an upgrade and the system errors out thus:

Error enabling swap device hda3: No such file or directory
The /etc/fstab on your upgrade partition does not reference a valid swap partition.

Press ok to restart your system.

Allrighty then, I say.   Reboot into FC6 and take a gander at the fstab.

/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0

Then I wander over to /dev and lo and behold hda3 exists.

Never seen this error before, so, now I'm a tiny bit lost.  So, I read the release notes.

As suggested, I looked at /sbin/blkid  and the swap entry has ????? instead of the name swap.  That's what's causing the error, all right.  But I don't know how to fix it.

So, now I need help.  Remember, I don't do this all the time, so please be specific. 

One other thing, the release notes more or less advise against upgrades, so would it be better just to do a fresh install.  The only specific issue with that is getting my Thunderbird data back into the correct location. :)

Cheers to all.

Bonnie