CentOS - Apr 2004 - Re: Upgrade install using CentOS-3.1 ISO images (Bart Schaefer)

Be curious myself as to what info you come up with on the "upgrade via
ISO"
and "SATA" support questions you posed.

Hopefully someone on the list will help you out with a reply to the list.

JT
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 19:47:15 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer at zanshin.com>
> To: centos at caosity.org
> Subject: [Centos] Upgrade install using CentOS-3.1 ISO images
>
> 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.
>
> Searching for the SATA driver modules I found CentOS and decided to try
> it.  I downloaded the three ISO images to another PC, burned CDs, and set
> about to upgrade my RH9.  However, the installer never offered me the
> option of upgrading (keeping my existing filesystems) -- no matter what
> steps I tried using when starting the installer, by the time it got to the
> page for disk partitioning it always wanted to start from scratch and blow
> the existing partitions away.
>
> I finally concluded that I hadn't put anything important on the disks
> during my struggle with RH9, so I went ahead with the clean install.
> Everything is working nicely at this point, so thanks for that.
>
> However, there are some other RH9 systems around the office that may need
> to be upgraded at some point, and they definitely can't be wiped clean
in
> the process.  Is there a way to upgrade from RH9 to CentOS?
>
> Any remarks about upgrading from even older RedHat releases?
>
>
>

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Jeff Thomas - KD4EVB wrote:
> Be curious myself as to what info you come up with on the "upgrade via
> ISO" and "SATA" support questions you posed.
For the record, CentOS 3.1 supports SATA just fine.

My only question is about the upgrade option during installation.
> Hopefully someone on the list will help you out with a reply to the list.
Yes ...

It is my understanding that there is no upgrade path available from Red 
Hat 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, so I doubt you will find anything of 
that nature in the CentOS installer either.

It does seem a little odd since RH9 is so compatible with RHEL3.  You 
should be able to find more information at redhat.com.

cody


> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 19:47:15 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer at zanshin.com>
> > To: centos at caosity.org
> > Subject: [Centos] Upgrade install using CentOS-3.1 ISO images
> >
> > 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.
> >