Robert Myers rbmyersusa@gmail.com writes:
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:
One some computers preupgraded needs handholding after the first reboot. In my case 3 of the 6 computer upgradede from f13 to f14 asked me to acknowledge the network settings. I might addd that it had guessed the the settings correctly, it just wanted me to confirm them (eth0, dhcp for ipv4, and the standard RFC automatic config for ipv6).
-wolfgang