[opensuse] guide to remotely upgrading Suse
Hi, Could someone point me in the direction of a HOWTO to upgrade a suse 10 machine to 10.2 via SSH? Regards Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 19 Feb, 2007 at 18:50:55 +0000, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Hi,
Could someone point me in the direction of a HOWTO to upgrade a suse 10 machine to 10.2 via SSH?
Google should be able to find you lots of links like; http://tr.opensuse.org/Network_Install Just bear in mind that there have been occasions where 10.2 fails to install Grub correctly, leaving the system unable to boot /Jon. -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jon Clausen wrote:
Just bear in mind that there have been occasions where 10.2 fails to install Grub correctly, leaving the system unable to boot
That just happened to me over the weekend. I eventually got it going, and it is running 10.2 just great now, but it was the strangest thing I ever saw. I know now I do much prefer GRUB writing to the MBR by default. I think that would have saved me several hours work. If I had tried that machine remotely, It would have only been remote for as long as it took me to get there. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:28:24 Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Jon Clausen wrote:
Just bear in mind that there have been occasions where 10.2 fails to install Grub correctly, leaving the system unable to boot
That just happened to me over the weekend. I eventually got it going, and it is running 10.2 just great now, but it was the strangest thing I ever saw. I know now I do much prefer GRUB writing to the MBR by default. I think that would have saved me several hours work. If I had tried that machine remotely, It would have only been remote for as long as it took me to get there.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64
Hi, I don't know if I'm not getting mails from this list but this is the first reply I've received to my question. Any chance someone could resend the info? I've got quite a few machines running 9.1, 9.3 and 10.0, would be nice to get them all running 10.2 without having to feed CD's into them. Cheers Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2/20/07, Matthew Stringer <qube@firstnet.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I don't know if I'm not getting mails from this list but this is the first reply I've received to my question. Any chance someone could resend the info?
I've got quite a few machines running 9.1, 9.3 and 10.0, would be nice to get them all running 10.2 without having to feed CD's into them.
Cheers
Matthew
Here is the whole thread. I cc your private email, in case you do not get it from the list. <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-02/msg02111.html> -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 20 Feb, 2007 at 13:54:10 +0000, Matthew Stringer wrote:
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:28:24 Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Jon Clausen wrote:
Just bear in mind that there have been occasions where 10.2 fails to install Grub correctly, leaving the system unable to boot
That just happened to me over the weekend. I eventually got it going, and it is running 10.2 just great now, but it was the strangest thing I ever saw.
Yeah, I hope I get time to check into it some more this weekend. I have a hard time parsing this next bit;
I know now I do much prefer GRUB writing to the MBR by default. I think that would have saved me several hours work.
- at least to the extent that Grub writing to the MBR (as is the default, is it not?) was what went wrong in my case... I think?
If I had tried that machine remotely, It would have only been remote for as long as it took me to get there.
Indeed... but that could conceivably be *some* time... ;)
I don't know if I'm not getting mails from this list but this is the first reply I've received to my question. Any chance someone could resend the info?
You didn't miss all that much. I basically just said that Google would be a good place to start... Anyways, Joe sent you the link in another mail.
I've got quite a few machines running 9.1, 9.3 and 10.0, would be nice to get them all running 10.2 without having to feed CD's into them.
Using 'remote-install' as an alternative to 'feeding CDs' sounds like the target hosts aren't *too* far away (?) In which case I wouldn't worry too much about the prospect of grub-install failure since you'd have physical access, once you got out of the chair... ;) /Jon -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:29:16 Jon Clausen wrote:
You didn't miss all that much. I basically just said that Google would be a good place to start...
Anyways, Joe sent you the link in another mail.
Yes he did, thanks. Not found anything useful on Google which prompted the question (normally try to find the answer before asking on here).
I've got quite a few machines running 9.1, 9.3 and 10.0, would be nice to get them all running 10.2 without having to feed CD's into them.
Using 'remote-install' as an alternative to 'feeding CDs' sounds like the target hosts aren't *too* far away (?)
I've 2 machines downstairs in the server room I want to try this on first, if successful I've 60 machines 300 miles away in London I want to do this on.
In which case I wouldn't worry too much about the prospect of grub-install failure since you'd have physical access, once you got out of the chair...
True but why would it need to reinstall GRUB if I'm only doing an upgrade as it's already there? Cheers Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Just followed that guide, works a treat, thanks for the help. Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 20 Feb, 2007 at 21:15:53 +0000, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Just followed that guide, works a treat, thanks for the help.
Great :) Just for the record, the actual string I used for Google was: opensuse remote install -so there /Jon -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Daft question on this: If I connect to the internet via eth1 how can I specify that in the GRUB config. Testing it on a machine it loads the drivers for both NIC's but tries to connect via eth0 and fails. Cheers Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 21 Feb, 2007 at 10:37:55 +0000, Matthew Stringer wrote:
Daft question on this:
If I connect to the internet via eth1 how can I specify that in the GRUB config.
Testing it on a machine it loads the drivers for both NIC's but tries to connect via eth0 and fails.
Google to the rescue: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=linuxrc+parameters&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 leads us to: http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc#Standard_Parameters - where we find: <quote> Netdevice Specifies the interface or hardware address linuxrc should use for installation if there are several network interfaces available on the installation host. Wildcards are allowed. Example: Netdevice=eth1 Netdevice=00:09:1a:34:7d:69 Netdevice=*:69 </quote> among lots of other interesting info :) HTH /Jon -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hey,
<quote> Netdevice
Specifies the interface or hardware address linuxrc should use for installation if there are several network interfaces available on the installation host. Wildcards are allowed.
Example: Netdevice=eth1 Netdevice=00:09:1a:34:7d:69 Netdevice=*:69 </quote> In some cases also a "netwait=10" helps, mostly on machines with tg3 driver.
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