Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk> writes: > Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > that's one way, the easier way is to either use apt > > Does apt work with Red Hat in a usable way? I tried it a long time > ago, and deleted it. sort of, just mask out ximian-packages and other stuff you can't make dependencies for. otherwise it supposedly works well. I have to admit to using red-carpet mostly myself. > > 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. > > I have used rpmfind --autoupgrade to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2, and > that required not a huge amount of manual intervention, but more > than I want. hm, haven't tried that. > I tried using rpmfind to upgrade this machine from 7.2 to 7.2.93, > but it changed my /lib/ld-linux.so and everything ground to a halt. ouch. someone[tm] didn't think when they handed you the rpms. > I had to reboot with init=/sbin/sash to fix it. Now I have created > a directory /static, containing lots of statically compiled tools, > including the LVM tools. I've by habit compiled all the tools statically for a long while now. > We really need a rescue disk that supports LVM, RAID, reiserfs and > ext3. Anyone seen such a beast, or do I have to make it myself? Gentoo's default kernel supports this, as well as XFS, out of the box. > > these days I have a RH7.2-box that has an uptime of about 240 > > days. :) > > So you are not yet running a recent kernel? correct. but only me and my girlfriend can log into it, so security-wise it doesn't really matter. although I do miss certain parts of 2.4.18 these days. :) oh, and yes, the box runs 0.9.1_beta7. which has worked flawlessly as long as I've kept _far_ away from known bugs. :) -- 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