[CentOS] Re: Upgrade RedHat 9 to Fedora

[sudo Yang]

On 8/3/05, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com> wrote:
> sudo Yang wrote:
> > On 8/3/05, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com> wrote:
> >
> >>sudo Yang wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 8/3/05, Steven Vishoot <sir_funzone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Ugo,
> >>>>
> >>>>hmmmm at first i was saying to myself, well sudo said
> >>>>that he knew about the riserfs support in centosplus
> >>>>directory but that he cant do that with kickstart. Now
> >>>>i see what you are talking about, use kickstart and
> >>>>then do a yum update kernel(for riserfs) and then
> >>>>reboot. ah i see said the blind man to the deaf man.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Keep in mind that the kernel used during the kickstart process (used
> >>>to be called the BOOT kernel) has to support the file system type,
> >>>otherwise you can't create the file system(s)  during the kick
> >>>process.  Someone recommended installing a kernel that supports the
> >>>file system then do mkfs using that kernel after the kick, but this
> >>>seems kind of kludgy.
> >>
> >>Why would you need to create a FS if it is an upgrade?
> >
> >
> > Because we currently add about 5-10 new servers a month. Both upgrade
> > and new installation have to be considered.
> >
> 
> But, in the case of an install, you cannot create the filesystem after
> the install?

You can by doing it yourself or with a script.  Anything is doable --
just trying to determine the best way.  Everything else seems kludgy
unless it's integrated into Anaconda/kickstart.

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> Ugo
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