[Sussex] Fw: Fedora 4 SCSI disk won't boot afterupgrade fromFedora 3

[Brendan Whelan]

Jon,

Thanks for the info. At present, we only have small volume deployment so
cloning and upgrading is quite effective. In any event before doing any form
of upgrade, I would want to take an image copy of any disk which is in use
on site.
However, when time allows, I will have a look at Kickstart.

Brendan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Fautley" <jfautley at redhat.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Fw: Fedora 4 SCSI disk won't boot afterupgrade
fromFedora 3


> Brendan Whelan wrote:
> > Jon,
> >
> > Just to round off the topic. I cloned another core 3 disk onto the core
4
> > one which would not boot, upgraded to core 4 and the disk boots. I then
> > applied the latest RPM updates. All I can assume is that there was some
sort
> > of gremlin at work when I did the original upgrade.
>
> Glad it's all working :)
>
> Out of interest, why are you doing installs in this manner? If you're
> doing mass-deployment of systems, you should really look at Kickstart.
> Kickstart is a mechanism by which to automatically install a system -
> it's basically a set of instructions detailing how the system will be
> configured, i.e. networking/disks/etc, and what software packages to be
> installed. It allows for custom scripts to be run either pre- or
> post-installation, and even the most complex applications can be
> kickstarted - for example, we have a very nice method of Kickstarting
> Oracle, which is notoriously difficult to install.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
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