[CentOS] question on CentOS 4.4 SCD -> CentOS 5?

Daniel de Kok danieldk at pobox.com
Mon Oct 15 19:10:31 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:01 -0700, Rogelio wrote:
> If possible, I'd like to do a minimal l CentOS 4.4 (the Single Server
> CD) installation and then mass upgrade everything to CentOS 5.
> 
> I googled and found this URL
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide/ServerCD_4.4_to_5
> 
> Is this recommended?  Or will might I run into any problems?

If you plan to run CentOS 5, why not install it directly? If you want a
smaller installation medium, you can download the
os/<arch>/images/boot.iso ISO image and do a minimal netinstall. You
could also use just the first CentOS 5 CD and do a minimal install
(disable all software groups).

-- Daniel




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