On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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). > I just completed FC13->FC14 on a remote machine without touching the remote keyboard. Maybe the fact that there was a keyboard physically attached made the difference, but I suspect that something else--VNC, maybe--is causing the problem. Once the machine was rebooted, I just ssh'd into the machine, which is now running FC14. Robert. -- 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
