Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk> writes: > We have a number of servers with /usr and /var on LVM. The > difficulty arises when upgrading from one version of Red Hat to > another; the installation disks do not recognise the logical > volumes. a well known issue. > Do any of you have any reasonable approach to solving this? if you want to do the "normal" thing with a CD-boot-upgrade, no, you're fscked. > Do I need to create a new network installation boot disk with a > small kernel with support for LVM and scripts to turn on LVM groups? that's one way, the easier way is to either use apt or red-carpet to upgrade your distro. with red-carpet, fiddle with /etc/redhat-release, apt has dist-upgrade, I think. I've upgraded two machines from 7.0 -> 7.2 with red-carpet, but I'd advice you to set off a day with this, even if you get the rpms from somewhere besides ximian. I did it as follows: grab the rpms from RH7.2, with the updates, from a local mirror, and dump them to /var/cache/redcarpet, then fiddle with /etc/redhat-release (feel free to install the rpm "redhat-release"), then run red-carpet. things will break and fail now and then, fiddle. these days I have a RH7.2-box that has an uptime of about 240 days. :) -- Terje _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
