[Centos] RHEL 4 => CentOS 4

Mon Jan 17 16:44:15 UTC 2005
seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>

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.

> 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.

-sv