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Subject: RE: Upgrade linux
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:54:25 -0800
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From: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>

The only thing I could find is this, but it is kind of scary:

http://www.underhanded.org/papers/debian-conversion/remotedeb.html

Will it be easier to just reinstall everything from CD?=20

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Sharp
>Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:39 PM
>To: Maxim Kozlovsky
>Subject: Re: Upgrade linux
>
>On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:37:27 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
><maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Andy Sharp
>> >Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:33 PM
>> >To: Maxim Kozlovsky
>> >Subject: Re: Upgrade linux
>> >
>> >On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:21:04 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
>> ><maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> If I have a machine with
>> >>
>> >> Linux c14r35-rhel4.onstor.lab 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5
>> >> 19:29:47 EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> >>
>> >> [root@c14r35-rhel4 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>> >> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)
>> >>
>> >> What is the easiest way to install there something that works?
>> >>
>> >> Max
>> >
>> >I was googling around once and found a script that will install
>> >debian over the top of a redhat system.  Could be your friend in
>> >this case.
>> >
>> >2.6.9-5 is a *very* early version of this kernel package.  I am
>> >amazed it runs for any real amount of time before crashing.
>> >Especially on amd64 arch.
>> >
>> >a
>> [MK]
>> Is it amd64 arch? The kernel messages say that it is intel xeon. I
>> wonder if in addition to bad release they installed wrong
architecture
>> there.
>
>they call it x86_64, but we all know AMD invented it ~:^)  originally
>in the kernel it was called amd64 but intel objected eventually.
>
>a
