On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Dear team, > > 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. > > Do any of you have any reasonable approach to solving this? 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? Why do all people think they need to reboot the maschine to upgrade software? This is not NT :-) Switch to runlevel 1 (may be optional), mount the CD and use rpm -F (or -U). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)241 413 260 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)241 413 2640 QIS Systemhaus GmbH | Mail: dheinrichs@qis-systemhaus.de Juelicher Str. 338 | Web: http://www.qis-systemhaus.de D-52070 Aachen | ICQ#: 110037733 _______________________________________________ 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
