'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 22/07/12 01:12 did gyre and gimble: > OK, so the packages have now all been uploaded. > > You should see several packages now that you cannot install on Cauldron. > This is intended behaviour. > > Here is how to update your cauldron systems: > > 1. Run "urpmi --auto-update" install everything that can be installed.
I should clarify that it is expected that some packages will refuse to install due to them requireing the new filesystem package and that package itself requires a converted filesystem before it will install. > 2. Ensure that latest dracut is installed. Run "urpmi dracut" to make > sure (it may have been excluded in the --auto-update if it was in a > transaction with other packages that could not be installed). > 3. Ensure that you do not have zapata or dpkg installed (rpm -e zapata; > rpm -e dpkg) > 4. Generate a new initrd and include the conversion script: dracut -f > -a convertfs When generating the initrd, make sure you are booted currently on the latest kernel, or that you adjust the dracut command accordingly. > 5. If you have /usr on a separate partition > - Ensure there is enough free space to hold /bin, /sbin, /lib and > /lib64 content. > - If your /usr is mounted readonly, change your /etc/fstab to mount > it rw. > 6. Reboot. > 7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: "rw > rd.convertfs" (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot. > > That should be all that is needed :) Oh, yeah, after reboot, make sure you complete the rest of the updates :) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
