FC3 Upgrade of x86-64 System?

[Andrew W. Donoho]

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 system
>>> upgrades? In other words, can I boot the i386 rescue disk on an  
>>> x86-64
>>> system and then point it at an x86-64 repository to do the install as
>>> an x86-64 system?
>>>
>>
>> no, the kernel is wrong.
>> -sv
>>
>
> Shouldn'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  
> yum
> upgrade, 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.

Andrew

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