> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 09:35 -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:27:28PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Toshio Kuratomi (a badger gmail com) said: > > > > > There are definitely workarounds available, but none that meet the > > > > > criteria for preupgrade as an effortless upgrade option. > > > > > > > > So I'm a bit confused by what is so hard here. preupgrade starts up, > > > > finds it can't store stage2, and then tells you that you'll need to have a > > > > wired connection to the internet if you want to use it. So you have to > > > > download stage2 when you reboot and you have to cart your laptop over to the > > > > router to plug it in while it does so... it's not like I'm going to be using > > > > it for work while anaconda is running.... > > > > > > Basically, the case where it fails is when there's enough space to download > > > stage2, but not enough space left after downloading stage2 to do the > > > upgrade. > > > > > > > Could we add some support to use a USB key as scratch space for any part > > of this process? > > Not a bad idea. Not sure who would add this support and test it before > Tuesday. Definitely something to consider as a future enhancement to > preupgrade. You could hand edit the stage2= line and point is to any non-lvm partition including a temporary usbkey. You would need to have a filesystem label on the usbkey, and change "Fedora" to be the name of your usbkey in the grub.conf file entry for preupgrade. Just make sure that the install.img resides in /images on the usbkey. You could boot off the boot.iso and pass the needed options to anaconda, appending to the boot line does work with: append initrd=initrd.img stage2=hd:LABEL="Fedora" preupgrade \ repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:sda1:/upgrade/ks.cfg Yea, I know ks=hd:sda1 is less that ideal, but if that is the /boot partition unless your playing bios games with the boot order, where else can it be but sda1? This could be added to the boot.iso in a stanza as an option much like rescue. Just some thoughts, Jerry -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
