On 2/24/2011 5:13 AM, Jorgen Lundman wrote:
> Right, so I download the fc14 ISO and try to do a install over the old OS,
> hoping to keep data. The installer does have an option to keep things, the
> second to last option, before custom.
>
> It just notifies me that there are no places to install
On Sunday, February 27, 2011 06:50:28 am Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> I see your RH8 in a VM and raise a RH7.2 in a VM. :-)
> For an Internet facing service, nonetheless!
And I'll raise you an RH5.2, still running after nearly thirteen years. On
physical hardware.
It's just about to be decommissione
On 02/26/2011 05:18 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> If you have a toolchain which run in FC8 it's possible that it won't run on a
> newer system. If you hardware supports HVM so you can run KVM virtualization,
> I
> would almost think that the easiest way out is to add a drive with FC14, and
> run
Jorgen Lundman wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> Senior unix admin, but relatively fresh Linux admin. I run a fc8 box only for
> cross-compiling, as so many toolchains come pre-compiled for it.
>
> However, today I found the need to finally upgrade. This is an account of
> what I
> went through, and not
On 02/25/2011 02:54 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> If you're going to
> use a rapidly-changing distro like Fedora you need to keep it up to date
> if you don't want to suffer the consequences of being several years
> behind the curve.
Actually, in his case it wouldn't have mattered what distro he was
us
On 02/24/2011 02:13 AM, Jorgen Lundman wrote:
> Then I ran preupgrade, I went straight for fc14. I was told that my /boot was
> too small. Of course it is! Still, it did say something about downloading it
> after reboot. Plus one for fc there.
If you had bothered to do your homework, you would hav
Jorgen Lundman kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 24.
helmikuuta 2011):
>
> I use custom, which at least gives me some clues. Apparently I
> can not install to a ext3 filesystem. This seems a really bad
> decision by someone. Essentially, it is just untaring files
> on an existing fs.
JB gmail.com> writes:
> ...
Jorgen,
what the hell is it they are smoking there ... In Tokyo ?
I would like to try some of that stuff too ...
I guess there is a global revolution, new flower generation, verbotten
substances, and a lot of excitement in the air ...
But I think sys admins, rationa
Jorgen Lundman lundman.net> writes:
> ..
> Senior unix admin, but relatively fresh Linux admin. I run a fc8 box ...
> ...
> Then I ran preupgrade, I went straight for fc14.
> ...
I think you should know more about the OS you are dealing with.
Fedora is a fast moving development distro, with freq
Just a few random comments. Dunno about preupgrade, and Fedora 8 is ancient
and unlikely to be tested for system upgrades.
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:13:01 +0900, Jorgen wrote:
> I do not care about the OS, but it would be easier if all my toolchain
> installs
> and home directory contents remained
Hello list,
Senior unix admin, but relatively fresh Linux admin. I run a fc8 box only for
cross-compiling, as so many toolchains come pre-compiled for it.
However, today I found the need to finally upgrade. This is an account of what
I
went through, and not just meant as a bitch session.
I d
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