On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 22:47, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Cutting straight to the chase:
When, if ever, does the installer offer an option to upgrade an existing installation, rather than wanting to reformat the disks?
More details than you may want:
I recently acquired a new PC chassis, with no operating system but with a Serial-ATA disk (which I was not expecting when I ordered it). I set the BIOS for legacy IDE mode and installed RedHat 9, then attempted to upgrade the kernel to add SATA support, without much luck.
Blah, blah, blah...
Any remarks about upgrading from even older RedHat releases?
I was just searching through the archives on another topic and didn't see anyone mention this possible option. I haven't tried it in Centos-3, but I know in rhel3 you have to boot using "linux update" to get it to do an upgrade rather than a clean install. That is mentioned in the rhel3 documentation, however not very prominently. They discourage its use. Does anyone know if that option is available with Centos-3?