[LUNI] Centos3 and a Sata Drive

[David Terrell]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:16:33AM -0600, Tom Printy wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have a few workstations with RHEL3 on SATA drives.
> > I don't know about support for that particular motherboard.
> > Like Arun suggested, you're more likely to have success with a more
> > modern version.
> 
> Thanks for the responses everyone. The reason that I want to stick with
> centos3 is that I have some dependencies on python2.2, postgres7, and
> php4.   The system is currently running on ES3 update 8 and I just want
> to get the system running on more modern/faster hardware. 

A friend of mine likes to call this "not paying the software tax."

Sometimes you have to just take the time and fix your stuff to work 
with current versions, before you find yourself trapped in a disaster.

> In any event we decided to use and IDE hard drive and install onto that.
> I might try add in a SATA drive later and see if that is supported. If
> it is I will just dd the IDE drive to the SATA drive and see if I can
> boot from that.

use dump/restore to copy between unix filesystems, not dd.

(or tar/cpio if you use some bizarre filesystem that doesn't have a
working dump/restore).

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David Terrell
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