On Nov 6, 2004, at 13:18, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
lør, 06.11.2004 kl. 19.33 skrev seth vidal:On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 11:00 -0600, Andrew W. Donoho wrote:_____________________________________________________________________ _Folks, With the impending release of FC3, I was wondering if a single i386 rescue disk can be used to kick off both i386 and x86-64 systemupgrades? In other words, can I boot the i386 rescue disk on an x86-64system and then point it at an x86-64 repository to do the install as an x86-64 system?no, the kernel is wrong. -svShouldn't really be a problem - as long as it boots (and i386 code runs on x86_64)Original poster: what exactly do you mean? Do you mean to perform an yumupgrade, or to start an anaconda nfs (etc.) install? HW. detection the problem here?
I would be performing an anaconda HTTP upgrade. What I want is, because the rescue CD can ask you which protocol and code repository to use, I would like it to install the kernel and supporting material from the repository and not from the rescue CD. This isn't really a big deal but it would be a nice feature - one rescue CD for all x86 derived systems, 32 and 64 bit.
It isn't so much a hardware upgrade problem but rather, as I understand it, to get the new udev functionality in FC3 I need to do an anaconda upgrade. In other words, I am foolishly trying to save burning two CDs: FC3 i386 rescue CD and x86-64 FC3 CD 1.
But really - it is enough space (if that is the problem) for both a 32 and 64 bit kernel on the rescue cd.
Yes, the rescue CD is only 70-80 MB in size. Plenty of room for every kernel that Fedora supports. If the machine can read the disc, it should be able to boot from it.
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