FC3 Upgrade of x86-64 System?

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sat Nov 6 19:18:41 UTC 2004


lør, 06.11.2004 kl. 19.33 skrev seth vidal:
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 11:00 -0600, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > With the impending release of FC3, I was wondering if a single i386
> > rescue disk can be used to kick off both i386 and x86-64 system
> > upgrades? In other words, can I boot the i386 rescue disk on an x86-64
> > system and then point it at an x86-64 repository to do the install as
> > an x86-64 system?
> > 
> 
> no, the kernel is wrong.
> -sv
> 

Shouldn't really be a problem - as long as it boots (and i386 code runs
on x86_64)

Original poster: what exactly do you mean? Do you mean to perform an yum
upgrade, or to start an anaconda nfs (etc.) install? HW. detection the
problem here?

But really - it is enough space (if that is the problem) for both a 32
and 64 bit kernel on the rescue cd.




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