Re: XFS ISO images for RedHat 7.3

[Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 11:44, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> 
> 
>>it should be perfectly possible to upgrade to rh73 with xfs filesystems, as 
>>the rh73 installer loads the drivers. it just doesn't include any way to 
>>install a fresh system on xfs
> 
> 
> Not quite - there is no xfs filesystem support in the kernel that boots
> the installer, so you can't mount the xfs filesystems to do the upgrade.
> 
> I was thinking that an upgrade-only "installer" might be simpler to do,
> though, if an xfs-capable kernel could be booted in the installer
> somehow.

I have been working on this in the few cycles between official projects.
It is getting rather close.  Once I have it done, I will have scripts
that will take RedHat ISO images and make you new ISO images.  (Actually,
it currently is only 1 new ISO image but maybe it will be more...)

The one thing I may require is that the new ISO image be used on 80 minute
CDRs rather than the traditional 72 minute CDRs.  (This gets me the extra
space I may need - or I will need to touch two ISOs...)

I almost have the upgrade part working - it just takes so much time
due to not having much free time and needing to restore to the old
system in order to try again :-(

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