On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:40 PM, <maillists0 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> > wrote: >> >> maillists0 at gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the 2.618 kernel to a shiny new 2.6.32 >>> kernel. Anyone done it? Is it possible? Are there gotcha's to watch out for? >> >> So why not try RHEL v6 beta? >>> >>> Any advice is appreciated. A link to a decent howto would be awesome. >>> > > The box is about 1200 miles away and I figure I might as well give this a > try before spending the money on remote hands. Plus my boss doesn't like the > license stuff with Redhat. I hope you're planning on trying this on a local test machine or a VM specifically setup for this before trying it remotely. Also, make sure you have a backup plan, such as remote access to the console, and hopefully another machine with a PXE boot to be able to reinstall the OS or boot to a rescue disk.