These are probably dumb questions, but I'm relatively new to anaconda, not to linux. First, I'll try to describe the situation: I am building linux based file servers for smaller linux/windows shops. I want to use the latest kernels and a custom distribution. I'd like to start with Fedora Core2 and customize from there. Unfortunately, I can't get the core 2 distribution to boot on the machine because the i2o driver doesn't load and the dpt_i2o driver isn't part of the distribution (I'm using an Adaptec 2010s based raid for the boot file system). I tried the trick of building drivers (with patches from the i2o on linux site), installing them on a web server and loading them in the middle of the installation start up, but I never quite managed to make that go. So, I installed core 1 and built a 2.6.7-bk20 kernel that runs the Adaptec and the raid just fine and will boot from it. Therefore, I need to start on my customized distribution cd's to get core 2 installed using this new kernel and drivers. So, here come the questions: 1) Do I need to update the FC 1 system to anaconda 10.? to be able to work with the FC 2 distribution? 2) Can I even work on the FC 2 distribution in FC 1? I've seen some stuff that suggests that it won't work. If so, how can I bootstrap this provcess? I guess I'd have to get FC 2 working on another system and build my customized distribution with the new kernel RPM and SRPM on it. Is that really the only way to make this work? 3) Assuming I can make this work on the target system with FC 1, what packages/versions/patches do I need to install to get anaconda up to speed for FC 2 work? It seems like if I need to update a lot of the FC 1 packages, the dependencies are going to cause me to install a lot of updates. If I do all that, am I going to break the FC 1 to the point that it won't run long enough to produce the customized FC 2 cd's? I guess that's enough questions for now. I'm sorry for the length of this, but I'm hoping someone can straightem me out. Thanks, in advance for any help ... -Smitty Hibbard T. Smith, JR smitty@xxxxxxxxxxx
