On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 04:42 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:05 +0100, Peter van Eck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got a HP 380 G2 which is running RHEL AS 3 Taroon update 1. > > > > The current smp kernel 2.4.21-9smp is booting with a HPinitrd image. > > Mostlikely generated with the HP proliant Service Pack for RHEL 3. > > > > Now if I migrate this system to CentOS 3 and a new kernel will be > > installed ,will that work ? Does the new centOS kernel use the same > > config as the current RHEL kernel ? > > > > Anyone done this before ? > > > > I don't have access to the console so can't take too much risk here.. > > > > thanks, > > > > Peter > > > > > > When CentOS-3.1 came out, we did our kernels differently (we had a c0 in > the name then). Also, the kernel we used was a bug fixed kernel > kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.c0.i686.rpm . If you don't want to upgrade your > kernel, you can add: > > exclude=kernel* > > in your /etc/yum.conf file later on (if you choose to use CentOS) > > Are you doing any upgrades to that system (you should be if it is > touching the internet :) If you are using up2date to update your > system, using CentOS is easy. If you are not, it is going to be harder. > (BTW, if you are not updating the system at all, you can just run what > you currently have). > > If you are not upgrading it at RH, but you want to have CentOS (and stay > at the update 1 level) you can get what we initially released for by 3.1 > buy going here: > > http://vault.centos.org/3.1-final/os/i386/ > > In the RedHat/RPMS directory there 3 files you would need > yum-2.0.5-1.centos.2.noarch.rpm , centos-release-3.1-1.i386.rpm , and > centos-yumcache-3.1-0.20040318.3.noarch.rpm > > You would need to download those and install them via RPM. > > You would need to then edit the file /etc/yum.conf > > add the line: > > exclude=kernel* > > And then remark out everything except [base] and [addons] (including > updates if you don't want updated from the EL3 update 1 level). > > Also change the paths to: > > [base] > baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/3.1-final/os/$basearch/ > > [addons] > baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/3.1-final/addons/$basearch/ > > With kernel excluded and those items set, you should get the files > updated that CentOS has had to change for artwork reasons, etc. ... but > still be at the 3.1 (ie EL3 update 1) level of packages. > > If you have been doing updates from up2date, you need to do some things > differently, so let us know. > I forgot to add ... import the CentOS-3 key ... (all one line): rpm --import http://vault.centos.org/3.1-final/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 and then run yum to upgrade: yum upgrade -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051123/0ab0e694/attachment-0004.sig>