UPGRADING MY SYSTEM again

Bob McClure Jr robertmcclure at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 8 12:32:43 UTC 2005


On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:04:34AM +0200, Yazan Al-Sheyyab wrote:
> 
> Dear,
> 
>       Thank you for answering me , but i still have a problem because i have an itanium server
>        and i am using a consol inorder to install the system so the installation will be in a text mode
>        , so when i use your solution by hitting RETURN i cannot proceed with that because there is no
>        graphical installation support in my itanium machine .
> 
>       in the ordinary situation of my installation i write the following at the boot prompt to get it run
>       the installer in the text mode :
> 
>            linux text consol=ttyS0 utf8 
> 
> 
>      and i tried your solution but it does not work with me because of using the consol.
>   
>          and  tried with the sense that it will fail the following :
> 
>                 consol=ttys0 utf8    
> 
>                  but it leds me to the disk druid stage and then with the need of formating the / partition 
>                  again to proceed with the installation and that is what i do not want to do.
> 
> 
>     do you have another solution for my case about upgrading my system from 
>    RHEL v3 U3  into   RHEL v3 U4  without removing any data  using my case of using 
>    a consol  and a text mode  .
> 
>   ** i dont have a graphic mode to use hitting RETURN . and my system is itanum.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Yazan

At the boot: prompt, put

  linux text

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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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