[Centos] RHEL 4 => CentOS 4
Michiel van Es
michiele at info.nl
Mon Jan 17 11:35:06 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 11:25 +0100, Michiel van Es wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I would like to try to switch from CentOS 3.4 => CentOS 4 beta.
>>
>>I hava a couple of questions:
>>
>>-is possible to upadte/upgrade my test box from 3.4 => 4 and what are
>>the yum.conf settings/requirements?
>
>
> I tried with yum, it didn't work out very well. Since python and rpm
> have major upgrades in the process it doesn't go well. I was able to
> get the upgrade done, but the end result was not as user friendly as I
> would like.
so I noticed :(
>
>
>>-is it easy to update your CentOS 4 beta => CentOS 4 when the stable
>>version comes out?
>
>
> When I used anaconda the results were much better. At the first
> isolinux prompt, type the command:
>
> linux upgradeany
>
> And then pick upgrade the CentOS install.
>
> This method worked OK for 4 test installs that I upgraded. (x86
> workstation, x86 server, x86_64 workstation, x86_64 server).
>
> So, my recommendation, use anaconda and not yum to do the upgrade.
>
> I expect the RHEL final to be released soon...they have removed all the
> files from the RHN RHEL4 Beta Channels. That is exactly what they did
> before the last release of RHEL 3. You might want to wait unless this
> is a test machine.
Well..perhaps it is better to switch to the Final then..but will the
upgrade to 4 Final be much better with yum then the 4 beta?
Michiel
>
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