Re: Live Upgrade for Linux

From: Kelly Sauke (ksauke@fastenal.com)
Date: 04/02/03

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From: Kelly Sauke <ksauke@fastenal.com>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

    Reece Dike wrote:

    >On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Eric Rostetter wrote:
    >
    >The RedHat installer, anaconda IIRC, does this. During an install you can
    >can use the Alt-F2 to get to a command line prompt. From there you can
    >poke around and see what is going on. The partitions that you are
    >installing to are mounted under /mnt/sysimage. Anaconda just uses 'rpm
    >--root /mnt/sysimage' when it processes the rpms. You should be able to
    >use the kickstart file that was produced when you did the original redhat
    >install to recreate your environment.
    >

    Based on all the responses (which I greatly appreciate,thanks) from the
    list I think I have an idea how to make this work. This response being
    the second to last piece I needed. The only question I have left is:
    how does one run the RH installer "anaconda" on a live system without
    booting to the install floppy or cdrom? Can one just mount one of the
    ramdisk images somewhere and run ./anaconda? Could it be that easy?
    Thanks,
    KS

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