On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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.
RHL 9 was really too early for wide sata support; the first time I could run it reliability was the taroon beta -- and even then, the drive I had crashed and burned after a week ;(
Blah, blah, blah...
Any remarks about upgrading from even older RedHat releases?
I have documented using yum to move from as far back as RHL 7.3 to centos-31 current -- my other laptop did exactly this. I have moved from caos-1 to centos-31 also without major issue using yum
http://www.owlriver.com/projects/yum/
There is a Centos-3.1 release that has the new drivers from RHEL update 1 built in .... I don't think the update 2 iso is ready yet ... (I don't see it on any of the mirrors)...but it should be pretty soon.
The project lead has the updates in place -- respinning the ISOs will happen in the next couple weeks, but as it is a slipstream update, there is not really a tremendous rush
-- Russ Herrold