[CentOS] Re: Upgrade RedHat 9 to Fedora

Wed Aug 3 19:27:27 UTC 2005
sudo Yang <sudoyang at gmail.com>

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.

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> Ugo
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