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Fedora Core 7 Remote Install
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I've searched and read about a hundred posts and replies and can't find exactly what I need.

 

I have tried doing a yum install after a download and there are just too many conflicts for the dependencies. I'm afraid to remove them (for instance, glibc 2.3.5... I don't know if the current system would reboot if I needed to.)

 

So, here's my situation and my question(s):

 

I have a fresh fc7 install on my home computer along with Windows XP. No problem double-booting. Both work fine.

 

I have a remote system currently with fc4 on it. It's fully operational.

 

I can sftp to it from my local fc7 install and login as root.

 

Bottom line question... how do I install my fc7 on top of, and replacing, the fc4 on the remote system?

 

I have set up a couple of methods and I'm just not confident that any of them will work properly. Here's a couple of them:

 

I have copied all of the fc7 files to the remote /boot directory to co-exist with the current fc4 images. The files I copied are:

 




config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

System.map-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

and the 'grub' directory and all its contents.


 

The grub.conf file contains:

 




default=0

timeout=10

splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

hiddenmenu

title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)

root (hd0,0)

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img


 

If this is anywhere near correct, I don't know what to do next.

 

Here's another thing I've set up:

 

I've downloaded the fc7 release from redhat. The following files now exist in my remote /root directory:

 




anaconda-ks.cfg

fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm

fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm

install.log

install.log.syslog

and the Desktop directory.


 

I modified and copied the .cfg file to "ks.cfg". It contains:

 




# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

 

install

*** I need the data that goes here. I have a floppy mounted and copied the ks.cfg file to it. ***

lang en_US.UTF-8

langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 en_US en en_US.UTF-8 en_US en

keyboard us

xconfig --card "ATI Radeon 7000" --videoram 16384 --hsync 30-96 --vsync 50-160 --resolution 800x600 --depth 16 --startxonboot --defaultdesktop gnome

network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip xx.xxx.xxx.xxx --netmask 255.255.255.240 --gateway xx.xxx.xxx.xxx --nameserver xxx.xxx.x.x,xxx.xxx.x.x --hostname remote.com

network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp --hostname remote.com

rootpw password

firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp --port=80:tcp --port=21:tcp --port=25:tcp

selinux --enforcing

authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5

timezone America/Tijuana

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet"

# The following is the partition information you requested

# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed

# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is

# not guaranteed to work

#clearpart --all --drives=sda

#part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda

#part pv.3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda

#volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.3

#logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow

#logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984


 

followed by all the standard %packages contents of the original .cfg

 

I assure you, all of the 'xxx's in the above are correct, as is my host name and password.

 

As in the first example, if this is anywhere near correct, I don't know what to do next.

 

Any suggestions will be really, really appreciated!

 

Thanks!

Teresk

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i remotely upgraded this server (linux-noob.com) via ssh using this method, scroll down in the post to see how I moved from fcr5>fcr6

 

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in other words, i upgraded it via yum by going from fcr4>fcr5

then yum upgraded fcr5>fcr6

 

i'll update it to F7 when F8 is final.

 

it's probably best to upgrade in increments of one via yum unless you are brave,

 

good luck

 

cheers

anyweb

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Thanks, anyweb... all good info in that thread! :)

 

Teresk

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