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: >From a computer with ssh and an X-server: $ssh -X 192.168.xxx.yyy $me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: su #root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: preupgrade 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
