Improvements to install.sh ?

[Peter Nitschke]

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On 28/09/2008 at 1:07 PM Michael H. Warfield wrote:

>On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 17:37 +0100, Martin.Hepworth wrote:
>> Ok i'll be first to bite:-)
>
>> Running servers on fedora is considered "a bad idea" (tm), your problem
>below being one of the reasons.
>
>	You don't have much choice if you want advanced features like md5sums
>on BGP peering and the like (I peer both IPv4 and IPv6 on BGP and have
>contributed patches to the quagga project).  Ever try a live upgrade of
>a CentOS system or RHEL from 4.x to 5.x?  I wouldn't consider them in
>this environment simply because they are that much worse.


But you don't _have_ to upgrade Rhel/Centos 4 to 5 for it to stay
functional.

As I use MS just for scanning then passing to a pop server, it's my
preference to just build a new box (or VM) with major OS version changes.