On 09/22/2011 10:11 PM, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: I haven't had to reinstall since F 9 at the latest, possibly since F 8. I know I used preupgrade to go from 9 to 11 (skipping 10) and for every release since up to 14. I expect to do the same once the last-minute bugs in 16 are fixed without any trouble.

On 23/09/2011 04:29, Craig White wrote: Maybe some of us don't have luxury of choosing what to use. I would love to use fedora, but the 1-year reinstall cycle is too short (Especially as it's not sure there will be someone to help users to reinstall) and getting the old binaries ported from vms with lost sources to work with software insisting to use latest bells and whistles not found in CentOS 5. Only choice left for us is the CentOS 6. Veli-Pekka

On 09/23/2011 08:49 AM, Craig White wrote: Or pretend you are using RHELv6 and ask on that list. :-) -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow

Digimer wrote: Just to thank you for your tutorial, which is very informative. If I had to criticize it, I would say that it is _too_ informative. Maybe you could consider a parallel Quick Guide, just listing the actions to take, 1,2,3,... But as far as I can see, I followed the strategy you suggest, which I've used for many versions of Fedora, as well as CentOS-5.6. But it didn't work for CentOS-6.0. The machine booted fine, but hung (IIRC) at "waiting for hardware to initialize..." Unfortunately I didn't take proper notes of what I tried; as I mentioned, I installed from a USB stick in the end. But I thought afterwards I'd ask if anyone had actually succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. Someone asked why I didn't send my query to the CentOS mailing list. The answer is that I meant to, but clicked on the wrong line ... In other words, a slip of the mouse. I could invent the excuse that I was using a Fedora machine as PXE server, which is true but irrelevant. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland