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?
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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
