Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] you are running configuration media for a different release CD ?!!??!

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bojan Gradisar wrote:

>Hi to all,
>Im new to this list and I'm having big problem.
>
>I have:
>Athlon 1.6 , 512 MB ram
>RedHat 9.0
>VMware-workstation-4.5.2-8848
>(each session 64MB ram, 2-3 host networks, mouse, etc)
>devil-linux-1.2.1-i486
>
>Im doing router/snmp simulation so I start vmware, start 4 devils and
>configure quagga etc. Then I save-config on 4 floppy's and everything
>is fine. Yesterday everything was working fine, I could restart one of
>devil's and he found configration and loaded it.
>I didn't mess with anything, didn't change anything regarding my OS,
>VMWARE, Devil, but today I cannot load configuration on any of my 4 floppy's.
>
>Im getting message:
>
>You are running a configuration media for a different release CD!
>You should update your floppy/USB to prevent potential problems.
>
>Your media is version : 1.2.1-i486
>You cdrom is version :
>
>  
>
It can't recognize the version of the CD which is really bad.

>Press any key to upgrade .....
>
>I cannot dmesg it, and cannot screenshot at right time, I cannot login
>as root, like that account does not exist.
>
>
>The upgrade process messes things and wont do any repair, at the end
>my configuration is lost. This message happened before, but I thought
>I ended my pain by deleting with mdel configuration file, before
>save-config. This way I could work fine, restart devil sessions in
>VMWARE, until I reboot my machine.
>
>Please can someone say something wise about this behaviour, and please
>I dont want to downlaod new version of Devil unless I really have to..
>
>How come one day everything is working fine , the other day it does
>not like I changed something but I didn't
>  
>
I would guess that your ISO file is damaged (I hope you use the ISO and 
not a real CD),  replace the file with a fresh version of it.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org