Installing CentOS 8 on Old Hardware

TL;DR: https://gist.github.com/learnitall/80d5474045a019eba30c3738bd3c57ca#file-upgrade_centos_8-yml There’s the classic story of a teenager becoming dissapointed when they realize their first car is going to be a piece of shit. It makes sense: new drivers, kids especially, are more likely to get into an accident so why give them a super fancy car if it’s going to be banged-up anyway? That same motif ironically also applied to my first server. I’m fortuante enough to have relatives in ’the business’ who donated some equipment to help me get started in creating my own home development lab, but like my first car, the equipment isn’t brand new and doesn’t have all the bells and whistles found in a modern datacenter....

July 16, 2020 · 6 min · Ryan Drew