Thanks for the info.
Well the main reason for me to migrate to centOS is that I don't have a
subscription to RHN for this box. So not able to do anything to keep
this system up2date :-)
It is running for over a year now and I would like to install updates.
My intention is to upgrade the kernel to the latest release from CentoS 3
update 6 I believe. In fact update the whole system to update6.
And eventually to centOS 4 to get a 2.6 kernel runnning..
Is the kernel config then adapted from the current running kernel ?
wil all modules be in /lib/modules/2.4.<CentOS release> ?
A collegue of mine informed me that as of RHEL update 4 380 G2's will
run fine ,hardeware driver wise, withhout the HP Serivce Pack.
Is it yum update or yum upgrade b.t.w that I should run ?
thanks,
Peter
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.
>
>
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