On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 16:46, Hibbard T. Smith, JR wrote: > 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? Yes, you do need to run FC2 because you will need the latest python, glibc, etc. Technically, you could use yum/apt to upgrade from FC1 to FC2, but that may or may not work. Do you not have a generic white-box that can load FC2? It may just be easier to get a machine without the latest Adaptec RAID board and install FC2 on it, then customize your distro there. Forrest
