[Centos] RHEL 4 => CentOS 4

Michiel van Es michiele at info.nl
Mon Jan 17 16:50:22 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:26 +0100, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
>>seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>>>Unlikely, the best approach is still going to be to use Anaconda, as 
>>>>Johnny has said.
>>>
>>>
>>>There's another good reason to anaconda-upgrade - the kernel changes
>>>that go on mean a lot of various disk things have moved around, too.
>>>Like selinux settings and lvm type has gone from lvm1 to lvm2 - this
>>>requires some edits to your partitions. Yum doesn't do these changes
>>>b/c, well, it's not what yum does.
>>>
>>>-sv
>>>
>>
>>But not all sysadmins have 1-2-3 access to their servers (esp. if it is 
>>a colocated box..)
> 
> 
> Well you can always do an anaconda install over vnc. That's what I do.

Hey..that's a good idea :)

> 
> 
>>So for those poor people there is no option to upgrade?
> 
> 
> no, you can do a yum upgrade and you might need to piece-meal through it
> a bit - but it should be able to get you there.

Tried that but I got some glibc and glibc-common errors.
I am doing a linux upgradeany when I am at the NOC..

Thanks!

> 
> -sv

Michiel
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at caosity.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos



More information about the CentOS mailing list