Many thanks Les. I was hoping I'd hear exactly what you've said. I'll have to post once I've accomplished. Take care. Les Mikesell wrote: > Ed Westphal wrote: >> Greetings all. I'm new to the mailing list. Hope to get to know >> many of you. I'll jump right in with a recent project. I have a >> machine with RHEL WS 3 - Taroon; plus dual boot to Win 2000 Pro. The >> RAID card is Adaptec's 2400A w/128 megs cache, running RAID 10 on 4 >> WD's. I want to migrate to 5.2 Centos and wipe the NTFS partition. I >> have the 5.2 Centos DVD. Anyone see any problems, special preparation >> needed, whatever, to accomplish the migration? The RAID uses dpt_i2o >> drivers. The NVidia card can get drivers from their website, if need >> be to support full functionality. Please advise with any cautions, >> considerations, you may care to give. Thanks in advance. > > I'd recommend doing a backup, re-installing from scratch, then > restoring or reinstalling any old stuff you needed instead of trying > an upgrade (which might work, but you don't know how much old gunk is > left). The exception would be if you have separate partitions with > old data you could keep them and not reformat. > > One difference you might see is that in 5.x devices are detected in > more or less random order. If you have more than one NIC, you won't > know ahead of time which will be eth0 - but once configured it will > stay identified by the HWDADDR entry n the config file. Likewise for > your disk drives - sata devices may take /dev/sd? names but mounts > will match the disk labels. >