On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Michiel van Es wrote:
> I would like to try to switch from CentOS 3.4 => CentOS 4 beta.
This is not the 'RHEL 4 => CentOS 4' which your subject
indicated; A daring move -- I am still getting kernel lockups
when running X under the centos-4-beta2 candidate
> -is possible to upadte/upgrade my test box from 3.4 => 4 and what are the
> yum.conf settings/requirements?
This is not fully tested yet -- For testing purposes, I have
the beta ISO's loop mounted in a local mirror archive and
point my yum.conf at that local archive. See my scripts at:
ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/k12ltsp
and particularly
install-from-iso.sh
and the writeup on their use at:
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/pxe-install/
and the more general treatment at:
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/centos-31-ex-rhl-9/
> -is it easy to update your CentOS 4 beta => CentOS 4 when the stable version
> comes out?
<smile> This would be predicting hte future, of course; it is
doable presently with the latter page's method. 'easy' is a
value judgment.
Good luck -- feel free to ask questions and share
expereinces here.
-- Russ Herrold
