Any idea when Linode will be supporting Fedora Core 4? I understand I could just upgrade Core 2, but it would be much easier to just have the Core 4 image as an option.

Thanks,

- Mark

I'd like to bring Mark's question up again. FC5 will be out soon, FC3 is now legacy, and the Fedora image is still at FC2.

Updating FC2 -> FC4 using yum ranks somewhere between a colonoscopy and an IRS audit in my "things I'd want to do" list.

Not until Xen or the NPTL support in UML is complete.

-Chris

Any rough time estimate?

Many thanks,

m

Another vote here.

So... with 2.6.17-linode21 now considered the 'latest 2.6' kernel, and NPTL is present, does that mean a Fedora Core 4 distribution is a possibility?

I'm working on an FC5 image now.

-Chris

when would this FC5 image be released?
i'm impatient to test it.

by the way... is there any method to upload a rootfs made by us?

regards

You could create a blank disk image, and then send up a tarball of your desired root FS and untar it onto the blank disk (or use SSH to pipe tar's output to an untar command on the remote system).

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Hey Caker,

Any chance you can do an image for CentOS? In particular I think the CentOS "Server CD" is a perfect match for a Linode. At least I'm personally not interested in fandangled GUIs and stuff [1]. I just want httpd, mysql, postfix tls, etc. No X.

Mike

[1] The "Server CD" doesn't have an X server but it does have Xlib client libs so you can run Xnest locally and then ssh -X to run stuff like system-config-network and so on.

Over the last year, I've gone through the full migration path FC2->FC3->FC4->FC5 using YUM.

No major headaches.

I followed instructions from here:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
and here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

Fer

On your linode? Are you leaving anything important out here. Like, have you been upgrading your kernel (to the latest Linode kernels)? Anything else of importance, that a geek might take as a given, but another geek might need to know?



I'm familiar with the former, having followed Brian's work to upgrade my toy box at home, but not the latter.

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Chris, do you have an ETA?

Hi all!

I have now a working image of Fedora Core 5 on my linode.

Did it very easy: uploaded the Fedora Core 4 image found in uml.nagafix.co.uk, yum installed some absent packages (dhclient, iptables, etc.) and yum upgraded to Fedora 5
everything ok, and working with latest kernel 2.6 series.

Don't try to upgrade with yum to fedora core 6, it will make unusable your root_fs

Happy New Year!!!