[linux-lvm] how to upgrade from rh70 to rh71

[Luca Berra]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:53:04AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:35:17PM -0500, Joe Harvell wrote:
> > Hmm:
> > 
> > I never really thought about this when I decided to put all my
> > filesystems on LVM logical volumes; but how am I going to be able to
> > upgrade to RedHat 7.1?
> 
mount your rh71 cd and do
rpm -Ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.2-2.ix86.rpm
(so it will not upgrade it)
then rpm -Fvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*rpm

(speaking of mandrake)
> mounted on, etc.  The only thing they don't do yet is support root on
> an LV -- I am working on that problem when time permits.  Since they
> just released 8.1 I hope to have root on LVs in their next release.
i will add it at least to mkinitrd, since i am switching my main
system to mdk81, at the moment i am busy rebuilding everything with
athlon optimizations

i also had problem with lvm over raid with the installer.

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