Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-10 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 15:55:06 -0500 Jonathan Billings wrote: > EFI boot entries are built based on the UUID of the volume and then a > path to the EFI executable, so you would just need to create another > EFI entry, either for a different EFI volume with a standard path or > the same EFI volume wi

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 7, 2022, at 11:16, stan via users wrote: > > Thanks for the information, but you lost me at the multiple EFI > executables in different directories. How would boot know which > executable to choose? I thought it was the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora that > cued it that this is the system to boot.

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-07 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 22:09:42 -0500 Jonathan Billings wrote: > But you can have multiple EFI volumes, and with boot loader spec > configuration, you don’t need a lot of special configuration in the > EFI volume anymore, so I bet you can get away with multiple EFI > executables in different directo

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-07 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 14:13, stan via users wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:25:10 -0500 > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:12:04 -0500 > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > that sounds interesting, but don't you also need separate / > > > partitions with all the release specific sof

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-06 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 6, 2022, at 13:14, stan via users wrote: > > It doesn't work with EFI, because EFI only allows a single version of > any OS; so only a single fedora version. Systemd-boot *does* allow > booting multiple versions of an OS, but *only* EFI. That’s not really a limit with EFI. It’s more that

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Matthew Miller wrote: Thanks! Yeah, I agree that that's confusing. The problem is that that document is coming from our Program Management team, and that team mostly is concerned with the releases we're developing ? so current releases are "old". :) Perhaps old could be cha

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-06 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:25:10 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:12:04 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > that sounds interesting, but don't you also need separate / > > partitions with all the release specific software? > > Yep. My actual scheme has a tiny grub2 stand alone pa

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:30 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > In addition to fixing the typo, I also de-indented the "Supported > Releases" and "EOL Releases" (thus removing the "Old Releases") in the > navigation bar to help make things more clear. > Quick note: The gmane link in that page is dead be

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/5/2022 8:47 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Three approaches: > > Upgrade 1 release close to the EOL of current release.  This way you are > moving to a mature release. I generally like to recommend staying 1 release behind for stability... but as you note: > > Choose your poison. it's

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:12:04 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > that sounds interesting, but don't you also need separate / partitions > with all the release specific software? Yep. My actual scheme has a tiny grub2 stand alone partition which uses the "configfile" grub command to be able to boot on

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/5/22 21:03, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:47:06 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Three approaches: I go with the 4th approach: Keep two separate boot partitions and upgrade right away in one of them so I can go back to previous version trivially if it turns out something is horr

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:47:06 -0500 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Three approaches: I go with the 4th approach: Keep two separate boot partitions and upgrade right away in one of them so I can go back to previous version trivially if it turns out something is horribly wrong. I running fedora 35 now wi

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/4/22 18:20, Slade Watkins via users wrote: hi, Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? if I recall correctly, the End of Life (EOL) date is May 17th, 2022. someone else on the list can correct me if I am wrong though. Is it highly recommended that I upgrade to Fedora 35 at this point?

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/5/2022 12:59 PM, Ben Cotton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:32 AM Matthew Miller > wrote: >> Oh! I see Ben has already changed it. Should be live soon. :) > > Well, once the build failures[1] are fixed. > > In addition to fixing the typo, I also de-indented the "Supported > Releases" an

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Ben Cotton
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:32 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > Oh! I see Ben has already changed it. Should be live soon. :) Well, once the build failures[1] are fixed. In addition to fixing the typo, I also de-indented the "Supported Releases" and "EOL Releases" (thus removing the "Old Releases") in t

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Doug Herr
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, at 3:11 PM, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > I will ask this question here since I didn't understand the > explanations I found elsewhere. > Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? > Is it highly recommended that I upgrade to Fedora 35 at this point? I know this is all sorted

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 11:26:40AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > Thanks! Yeah, I agree that that's confusing. The problem is that that > document is coming from our Program Management team, and that team mostly is > concerned with the releases we're developing — so current releases are > "old". :)

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 08:05:03AM -0500, Slade Watkins wrote: > yes, happy to help! what I was referring to was the sorting of the > sections in the sidebar on this page: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/ Thanks! Yeah, I agree that that's confusing. The problem is that t

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Ben Cotton
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 2:45 AM Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > > Then I consulted this site, > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/ > That site says exactly what you confirmed (13 months after the release). > However I got a bit confused in the section called Maintenance sched

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 03:44, Anil Felipe Duggirala < anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, at 7:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:11:24PM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > >> I will ask this question here since I didn't understand the > explanations

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-05 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/4/2022 10:57 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Sorry, which section? Do you have a link? We're working on redesigning the > layout of our docs, so looking at this is timely. :) > yes, happy to help! what I was referring to was the sorting of the sections in the sidebar on this page: https://d

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, at 7:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:11:24PM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: >> I will ask this question here since I didn't understand the explanations I >> found elsewhere. Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? > > Until 4 weeks after the Fedor

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:06:29PM -0500, Slade Watkins via users wrote: > >I'm curious where you found the explanations that were confusing, and how > >we could improve them. > hi, > for me, it's not necessarily that the explanations were confusing, > but rather the section on the site itself. So

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
On 1/4/2022 7:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Until 4 weeks after the Fedora Linux 36 release. That's currently scheduled for 2022-04-19, which makes EOL for Fedora Linux 34 2022-05-17. I'm curious where you found the explanations that were confusing, and how we could improve them. hi, for me, i

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:11:24PM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > I will ask this question here since I didn't understand the explanations I > found elsewhere. Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? Until 4 weeks after the Fedora Linux 36 release. That's currently scheduled for 2022-04-19,

Re: support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Slade Watkins via users
hi, > Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? if I recall correctly, the End of Life (EOL) date is May 17th, 2022. someone else on the list can correct me if I am wrong though. > Is it highly recommended that I upgrade to Fedora 35 at this point? would worry about it closer to EOL. best, slade

support term for Fedora 34

2022-01-04 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
I will ask this question here since I didn't understand the explanations I found elsewhere. Until when will Fedora 34 be supported? Is it highly recommended that I upgrade to Fedora 35 at this point? thank you, Anil F ___ users mailing list -- users@l