Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau(a)shaw.ca>
wrote:
>> How about not running the school server on an OS which gets no more
> upgrades,
>> not even critical security upgrades??? Fedora 7 is no longer
> supported, so of
>> course there will be no efforts made to make modern live CD tools
work
> with it.
I can understand Kevin's sentiments, but at the time we are in
development, and the port to F9 is a major undertaking that I cannot
focus on right now. We will tackle it, but there are more pressing
needs.
And some of the stuff we have on F7 will be really hard to reimplement
on F9 - if anyone is keen on lending a hand with porting our odd
network setup scripts to F9, he or she will earn my deepest thanks.
And possibly a gig with us too if desired :-)
Networking, right up my ally, I don't think you would need to change
anything, just don't use NetworkManager. I'll have a look, off list, if
you like.
> Yea, you should try to get "School Server image"
working as a "spin".
> Have you tried the --base-on= option to livecd-tools and try to
re-spin,
> with the f7 live disk as the source, with a later distro? This, I
think,
> would be the same as doing a yum upgrade on the F7 release and
> re-rolling it.
Is there a "base" commandline liveCD for F7? Our current spin is a
X-less server setup.
The livecd-fedora-minimal.ks is X-less. What base-on= does, is when the
new ext3 filesystem is created for the new cd, the old filesystem is
copied over before any rpms are installed. Then more or less does a "yum
upgrade" is done on the old setup, and the new iso is created. I'd try
the minimal.ks(might need a bit of fiddling) with the base-on= pointing
to your old livecd.
Just a thought,
Jerry