Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-27 Thread Gregory Matthews
ack... meant this to go to the list: Karen Shaeffer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:20:14PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: - Karen Shaeffer shaef...@neuralscape.com wrote: Hiya, BTW, centos 5 runs a modified ext3 filesystem. So, that is an issue you'll need to come to terms with in moving

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-26 Thread Karen Shaeffer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:20:14PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: - Karen Shaeffer shaef...@neuralscape.com wrote: Hiya, BTW, centos 5 runs a modified ext3 filesystem. So, that is an issue you'll need to come to terms with in moving to other kernels. We've not seen any issues

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-25 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Greg Lindahl lind...@pbm.com 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? A much newer kernel from Fedora usually requires newer

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-25 Thread Paulo Afonso Lopes
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Greg Lindahl lind...@pbm.com 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? Just guessing: if reasons complicated to explain

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-25 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Greg Lindahl lind...@pbm.com 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? I'm interested in this sort of thing too. I haven't

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-25 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:37:01PM +0100, Bogdan Costescu wrote: A much newer kernel from Fedora usually requires newer utils as well Yeah, last time I did this I didn't rpm-ize the kernel, and that saved me quite a bit of work. I snagged the .config file out of Fedora, but didn't grab any

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-25 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Greg Lindahl lind...@pbm.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:37:01PM +0100, Bogdan Costescu wrote: A much newer kernel from Fedora usually requires newer utils as well Yeah, last time I did this I didn't rpm-ize the kernel, and that saved me quite a bit of

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-25 Thread Michael H. Frese
At 01:14 PM 11/25/2009, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Greg Lindahl lind...@pbm.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:37:01PM +0100, Bogdan Costescu wrote: A much newer kernel from Fedora usually requires newer utils as well Yeah, last time I did this I didn't

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-25 Thread Karen Shaeffer
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:14:01PM -0700, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Greg Lindahl lind...@pbm.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:37:01PM +0100, Bogdan Costescu wrote: In case you were considering the 2.6.25 kernel that shipped with Fedora 9, I recommend

RE: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-24 Thread Geoff Galitz
-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Greg Lindahl Sent: Dienstag, 24. November 2009 01:36 To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel? For reasons complicated to explain, I want to run a Fedora kernel on CentOS 5. Does anyone have

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-24 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
you also have to ask yourself what does the fedora kernel have that centos doesnt and that you cant add with a recompilation of the kernel or as mentioned in the previous email from the centosplus repo. ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
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

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-24 Thread Jack Carrozzo
Technically, there's no reason it wouldn't work, as it's the same to the OS as if you were just running a vanilla kernel (you're SURE you need the fedora kernel and a vanilla won't do?) Get the kernel source for the Fedora one, drop on CentOS, and go to town as you would a vanilla kernel.

Re: [Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-24 Thread Ed Hill
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:40:11 + Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: 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

[Beowulf] CentOS plus Fedora kernel?

2009-11-23 Thread Greg Lindahl
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...