Updated to Centos 4.6 on 1/2008 Date: 2008/01/02 My notes on the upgrade. This is a large updated (over 250 packages) bring the release from CentOS 4.5 to 4.6 and the 2.6.9-67.0.1 kernel. 0. Intro Updating the kernel require a bits of extra work due to: 1. We developed our own modules (pmac.o) -> recompile & reinstall pmac.ko for new kernel. 2. Install NVIDIA drivers for twinview support -> installation required after kernel upgrade. Notes on upgrading from 2.6.9-55.EL to 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL 1. Yum update. # yum update 2. Modify /etc/inittab to not boot into X. (runlevel 3 instead of 5) Disable loading of pmac.ko module in /etc/rc.d/rc.local Modify /boot/grub/menu.lst to remove entry for smp kernel and check default=0 Reboot. (must kill X to install graphic driver). Post-update fixes: Set scrollbars to false in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. 3. re-Install the NVIDIA driver (Geforce FX5600) Downloaded new driver from www.nvidia.com, version NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.07-pkg1.run, and stored it in /home/tcs3/public_html/systems/tcs3/computers/linux/0801_nvidia # cd /home/tcs3/public_html/systems/tcs3/computers/linux/0801_nvidia # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.07-pkg1.run Restore /etc/inittab to boot into X. 4. Need to add acroread, from http://www.adobe.com/products/reader: # cd /home/tcs3/public_html/tcs3/computers/linux/0801_acroread # rpm -iv AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i486.rpm 5. TCS New kernel require new .ko module -> reinstall tcs3 or module in /home/to/current/. Restore /etc/rc.d/rc.local to load pmac.ko. Recompile and test tcs3 main, as tcs3: > cd to last version > make clean > make # make main-install # make client-install