On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:35:34PM -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote: > For reasons complicated to explain, I want to run a Fedora kernel on > CentOS 5. Does anyone have any words of wisdom or pointers to webpages > for people who've done this? > > -- greg > > p.s. missed you guys at SC, I was stuck racking 500 servers... > http://www.flickr.com/photos/skrenta/sets/72157622738924345/ > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
I hesitate to say this, because I'm talking to someone whose reputation is stellar and because my own biases may show slightly :) Don't - under any circumstances whatever - use Fedora on a production system or a system on which you want to do real work. If you _MUST_ do it - because, for example, your hardware is too new and not yet supported under the Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Centos 5.4 kernel - 2.6.18-164* if I recall correctly - then it _may_ work but it WILL cause you some degree of instability, interesting debugging interaction problems and some hours/days of frustration. Red Hat 5 was based on FC6 or Fedora 8 IIRC. Both now unavailable on the main mirrors. Fedora 9 has 2.6.25 which is quite a jump. It might be worth getting the source RPMs and building the kernels from each of 10,11,12 but on a CentOS machine. RPMForge doesn't seem to have much to help, here :( All best, AndyC _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf