[CentOS-devel] Timeline for C5 beta / final?
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Sun Feb 18 03:02:08 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ovidiu Lixandru wrote:
>> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>>
>>> I have at least 1 machine I'll have to do it. And, guess what ? It is
>>> a remote machine (datacenter in another country).
>>>
>>> Should be fun.
>>
>> Duplicating the remote setup to a local/virtual machine and giving the
>> upgrade a shot before tinkering with the live server won't hurt. ;)
>
> A killer on remote machines can be when the new kernel detects your NIC
> cards in a different order and either skips initialization or assigns
> the wrong IP's. It may be hard to test that unless you have indentical
> hardware. If you have remote support you may be able to talk someone
> through the fix anyway.
>
isnt that why you use hwaddr in your network scripts ?
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