[et-mgmt-tools] Is Update this Easy

[Michael DeHaan]

Mackell, Thomas O wrote:
> This is kind of a stupid question, however I figured  I better ask
> before I do something dumb...
>
> Since I installed my current system using clobber, now I want to upgrade
> it.
> Currently running Fedora 8, and now I just imported the distribution on
> my cobbler server.
>
> So I think I need to make a new kickstart with just a few lines in it,
> like update instead of install, no package selection, or disk setup.
> Just a basic one like this:
> ###########
> # Kickstart to update server
>
> update
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> timezone --utc America/New_York
> lang en
> ########
> Then I define the server in cobbler and point to the distribution in
> there.
> Make a new iso using the buildiso routine.
>   

Pretty much that's how it works.

You'll want to make sure your upgrade kickstart is correct for all the 
options you want, which may mean going through the update process on a 
similar system and copying what gets installed in /root/anaconda.ks (the 
results of all the questions you answer are saved for future 
kickstarting), tweak it if needed, and use that for subsequent systems 
to get it fully automated.

You should be able to cobbler import F9 and just assign your systems to 
a F9 based update profile if you wanted to do that via netbooting as well.

Generally I don't do a lot of upgrade kickstarts (in fact, F9 on my own 
laptop seemed much happier doing a clean install), so YMMV.

--Michael

> Is this going to be as simple as I think ?
>
> Thank You,
> Thomas Mackell
>
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