perfsonar-user - Re: [perfsonar-user] remotely upgrading from CentOS 6 to 7
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- From: Mark Feit <>
- To: Larry Blunk <>, "" <>
- Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] remotely upgrading from CentOS 6 to 7
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:09:40 +0000
Larry Blunk writes:
We have a number of remote perfsonar nodes still running CentOS 6 and thus stuck at Perfsonar 4.0. My understanding when I looked at this a few years ago was that it wasn't possible to do an upgrade and a reinstall was required. However, I'm finding a few recent blog postings suggesting it's possible to do an upgrade –
Upgrades are possible but have the potential to turn messy or leave you with a system you can’t access at all if things go wrong. The CentOS team recommends fresh installations over upgrades; we recommend the same and would be unable to support debugging problems with an upgraded system.
Alternatively, it looks like one might be able to do a remote kickstart install.
That’s probably the safest alternative, and you have the option of fine-tuning the process in a VM before you try it out on the real thing.
Something to consider for the future if you don’t have console access is installing a USB stick with iPXE on your remote machines. You can do some clever things with iPXE that would allow you to boot something different by making it present on a web server and falling back to booting the local disk if that fails.
--Mark
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- [perfsonar-user] remotely upgrading from CentOS 6 to 7, Larry Blunk, 11/20/2020
- Re: [perfsonar-user] remotely upgrading from CentOS 6 to 7, Mark Feit, 11/20/2020
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