Upgrading to FC3 - [was Re: [ILUG] DHCP on home LAN?]

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> However, given that they are switching to a dynamic /dev, a static 
> /dev will not be very well tested or supported.  So, I reckon 
> you're very much on your own if you stay with a static /dev on FC3. 
> So, you should switch over to udev as soon as you can.  But the 
> manual process can leave you with an unbootable system if you don't 
> do it right.

Hmm, it doesnt seem /that/ drastic to me. Essentially, all you have 
to do is upgrade to 2.6 in FC2 /first/ really ;), install FC3 
initscripts, udev and deps, start udev then install the FC3 2.6 
kernel (and updated mkinitrd) - hey presto ;).

(and the FC3 2.6 kernel and mkinitrd /do/ install on FC2, because 
I actually did that quite recently - Arjan stopped making kernel 
updates available on his people.redhat.com homepage.)

NB: I appear already to have converted a debian sarge box to udev. 
Someone recently commented (either here or on IRC) about Debian 
hal/udev problems, so i apt-get installed udev for the fun of it and 
pretty much nothing happened that i noticed, but i've double checked 
and indeed udevd is running and /dev is dynamic. So unless RH really 
screwed up...

NB2: Ensuring that your mounts in fstab are device independent 
(either by way of LABELed mounts or meta-devices that do 
auto-discovery, like md or lvm) is highly reccomended, has been for a 
long time, and a good way to ensure things like udev upgrades are 
fairly painless.

> Later,
> Kenn

regards,
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