fedora 10 beta ==> current rawhide

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: fedora 10 beta ==> current rawhide
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 5:40 PM
> Dear all,
> 
> I have gotten a new machine and I installed Fedora 10 Beta
> and currently updating it to current rawhide 1.3 GB of
> updates are coming in currently.  I formatted the root
> partition ext4(used ext4dev).  Last time I tried that, I
> could not boot to latest kernel, I am asking if I should
> change the /etc/fstab to ext4 because the one that I had
> before had ext4dev and the newer kernel(s) had ext4 only. 
> Should I change it now that I can and reboot and boot into
> the newer 2.6.27.4-5??.fc10 kernel?  
> 
> I could not submit smolt profile since the machine was not
> on the network.  I manually assigned an IP to get the
> updates.  Tomorrow in the morning I will see what happens. 
> Thanks for advice/suggestions offered.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio
> 
> BTW:
> before the snapshot issue comes up, I cannot get torrent
> files.  I can only get the releases from mirrors.  I wanted
> to try a network install, but the documentation is not
> current and I do not want to ask for a nice howto that might
> not be available.  
> 
> 
>       
> 
> -- 

I am online with that machine :)
It is working nicely and updated to latest packages!  ext4 is working nicely. I just changed ext4dev to ext4 and it worked!

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_167f2503-c1b5-441f-81ad-0b2d9f176626 (public)

[root at riohigh2 ~]# uname -r
2.6.27.4-58.fc10.i686

[root at riohigh2 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb6d5b6d5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6956    55874038+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            6957       12178    41945715    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           12179       12504     2618595   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           12505       24321    94920052+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           12505       12517      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           12518       24321    94815598+  83  Linux
[root at riohigh2 ~]# /sbin/blkid -s TYPE /dev/sda6
/dev/sda6: TYPE="ext4"
[root at riohigh2 ~]# /sbin/blkid -s TYPE /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5: TYPE="ext3"

Regards,

Antonio