I'm slowly becoming interested in upgrading my aging server (RH 7.3 + SGI XFS). At the moment, I'm thinking of using Fedora.
Unfortunately, there isn't an SGI installer for Fedora yet. So, I'm thinking of upgrading the kernel first (SGI does have a kernel RPM that will work nicely), and then apt-get dist-upgrade against the Fedora apt repository. I've already done this successfully on machines that were previously running RH9 and Fedora beta 2, but I've never attempted it on something as old as RH7.3. How likely is this to work smoothly? - Gary ps: A couple of notes before someone asks: - XFS is required. I have neither the time nor the "scratch" disk space I would need to convert my existing partitions (~200 GB) to some other filesystem. Besides, why would I want to? XFS has been stable, reliable and really fast for quite some time now :) - Installing the kernel from an RPM is required in this instance, because, for some reason I've been unable to determine, I have never been able to successfully compile a kernel on this particular machine, either from the Red Hat patched sources or from the "clean" Linus sources, and have it boot. I have compiled my own kernels plenty of times on other machines, but it just doesn't work on this one. It's something to do with the motherboard. Whatever the reason, though, stock kernel RPMs from Red Hat work just fine, and so do the ones from SGI. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
