why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

[Will Woods]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 17:01 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:43, Will Woods wrote:
> > Once all that's done, we can reboot into the installer kernel/initrd and
> > upgrade using the packages that are already sitting on the local disk.
> > We even know which device it's on. That part could be basically
> > automatic.
> 
> /me puts his crazy hat on...
> 
> and at that point, after the install, you could just switchroot to the new 
> root right?  No second reboot?  </craaaazy>

Why stop there? Let's use kexec[1] to boot into the installer! No
reboots at all!

I'm SURE that's safe and well-supported.. right? Maybe?

-w

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6KdumpKexecHowTo
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