On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:33, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > 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? 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. - Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20040601/ad8f5578/attachment-0005.html>