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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/16/2014 11:26 AM, Justin Smith
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-qt-user-state:0;">Ah. I wasn't even aware that anything like
preupgrade existed. Well, with that feather in our cap, I'm
perfectly fine sticking with CentOS. It looks like they've
already released preliminary builds of CentOS 7.</p>
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Yeah, it took me a long time to find preupgrade too. It is always
confused me why Red Hat doesn't 1) publicize it more, and 2) install
it by default.<br>
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Of course, I don't know if even preupgrade would help us on a
Linode-hosted VPS - because they don't actually give you a "full"
virtual machine (with a BIOS and all, that can "boot" like a
physical machine), they load the kernel "out of band" and start it.
So the kernel actually doesn't get loaded from the disk image.
Which I'm sure would make a preupgrade-based upgrade scenario ...
interesting. In that you could wind up with a shiny new upgraded
installation, but still running the old kernel....<br>
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Not sure if Digital Ocean does this differently.<br>
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--Pat.<br>
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P.S. If you get some time, could you repost the Linode information
you posted to wplug-internet? I would be interested in hearing the
larger Technology Committee (and other followers...) take on the new
Linode plan....<br>
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