Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Steve Berg <sberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
