On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Steve Berg sberg@mississippi.com wrote:
So far I've had very good luck with preupgrade for 12 to 14 and 13 to 14 systems. There's one annoyance that is causing me some headache. I have a couple of systems that are headless and remote that I'd like to do a preupgrade on but I can't seem to get things started without some local keyboard interaction.
I need let preupgrade and/or anaconda know that it's supposed to use eth0 (some systems have more than one NIC). And I need to specify the language and keyboard layouts from within preupgrade and or the grub entry that launches the upgrade.
Currently I run preupgrade and then manually tweak /boot/grub/grub.conf to load the 14 installer automatically with a vnc session waiting for a connection. But this only happens after I locally tell the system to use English, a US keyboard and (sometimes) eth0. It's causing me to hold off on upgrading some systems until I can prove that I can get the 14 installer to launch all the way into the VNC session being ready with no local interaction necessary.
Maybe I'm missing something:
From a computer with ssh and an X-server:
$ssh -X 192.168.xxx.yyy $me@192.168.xxx.yyy: su #root@192.168.xxx.yyy: preupgrade
Robert.