On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:09 -0300, Ben Steeves wrote: > I have a server running FC2 that I'd like to upgrade to FC3. I can't > take the FC2 system out of service until I'm ready to do the upgrade, > and I want to make sure it goes well, so I grabbed some older hardware > and did a restore of the box's filesystem to the test machine. I > planned to upgrade the test machine as a sort of "dress rehearsal" for > the real thing (I'm also training someone else and wanted them to have > the experience...) > > The test machine boots fine and for all intents and purposes it's a > complete clone of the original box. The problem comes when I boot FC3 > and try to do the upgrade: Anaconda never gives me the option to do an > upgrade, it just goes right to the Disk Druid portion of the install. > > So my question is this: what does Anaconda look at to detect old > installations and how can I replicate whatever that is precicely > enough on the test box that I'll get the option to upgrade? > > Upgrading without Anaconda isn't really an option for this case, as > it's certainly not recommended by Redhat. I *think* anaconda looks for a partition with a file /etc/redhat-release (in Fedora this is a symlink to fedora-release) to figure out the distribution, and uses an fstab file from the same directory to work out where the other partitions are. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
