Quoting "W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Rebuild/upgrade on the redundant drive in a chroot
Rebuild elsewhere (local to you) on similar hardware and copy OS over.
I suspect though, that building a new system, getting it working and
shipping it as a black box would be the most low risk/effective
strategy.
Hint:
Setup grub to boot either os so local support only has to select which
disk to boot from if there is a failure.
Thanks for the advice.
This may seem a novice question, but can you build a 2.6 kernel and
use it to boot a system built against 2.4? That is, to divide the
move into two testable components, kernel and everything else,
1) Build a full new system on the redundant drive with a 2.6 kernel
2) Copy *just* the kernel over and test it (with a menu in grub as you
suggest in case it barfs)
3) If the kernel works, then move the rest over
Or does the kernel change enough between major iterations that you'd
have to, say, rebuild glibc or somesuch?
Cheers,
-Collin
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