OS Future now that Fedora Legacy defunct

[Justin W]

Justin W wrote:
> Well, at any means, I need to upgrade (I'll put off deciding whether 
> I'm going to go with CentOS or stick with Fedora for another day). I 
> could use some help getting ready for the move.
>
> I've done upgrades before, but they've always been kind of long and I 
> don't like going without my email server for that long. I'm now 
> thinking that I could install FC6 to a larger hard drive that I have 
> acquired and use FC6's Xen capabilities to host the FC4 (from my other 
> HD) while I'm in the process of upgrading. I don't know much about Xen 
> though.
>
> 1) Is kernel-xenU the correct kernel I need, or do I have to try to 
> compile one myself?
>
> 2) Will Xen run FC4 from the hard drive it's already on, or does it 
> want it as a file in the file system? (FC4 is under LVM if that makes 
> a difference)
>
> 3) Will there be any major sticklers I need to worry about when FC4 
> boots as a guest rather than on its own? Will network connections will 
> be broken in any way? Will I have to worry about my swap partitions 
> (as I know I don't have enough ram to run two systems at once without 
> using swap)?
>
> 4) Can somebody help me find a correct xen configuration that will 
> allow my FC4 system to run as it was (i.e. same IP address, etc). I'll 
> read up on some of the xen manuals, using 
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html a 
> reference to see what I need to do.
>
I knew I was forgetting one:
5) How does the boot up process work? How do I have to reference the 
kernel: as if it were chrooted so just /boot/kernel... or is it 
/path/to/fc4/root/boot/kernel...?

> After I have [ideally] both systems running, I'll slowly move services 
> from one system to the other until I have everything ported and 
> reconfigured (as FC4 was my first server setup, so therefore is pretty 
> messy and needs to be reworked from the ground up).
>
> If anybody wants anything more specific, I'll be happy to give you the 
> information you need.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin W
>