<br><br><b><i>Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@hughesjr.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 12:14 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> Jim Perrin <jperrin @gmail.com=""> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > I finally got arournd to trying to update Centos 4.1 to 4.3<br>> via the<br>> > boot 'linux upgradeany' option.<br>> ><br>> > The first attempt hung the system with only 2 minutes left<br>> in the<br>> > update procedure (according to the displayed remaing time<br>> left).<br>> ><br>> > It was trying to upgrade Mozilla to the latest version.<br>> ><br>> > I then hard rebooted the system and tried again thinking<br>> that it might<br>> > start over where it
left off (the Mozilla update).<br>> ><br>> > But no, it started the whole process over again.<br>> > This time however, everything completed and no system hangs<br>> occured<br>> > during the upgrade process. Have no idea why it hung the<br>> first time<br>> > around.<br>> ><br>> > There is plenty of disc space available on the mounted the<br>> partitions to do<br>> > what ever it needed to do (as in 60 GB).<br>> ><br>> > The thing i noticed though, was that everything in my<br>> ~Desktop folder<br>> > that have been set up previous was gone.<br>> ><br>> > Is this normal in an upgrade procedure with Centos?<br>> <br>> Not at all, but then what you did isn't considered 'normal'<br>> upgrade<br>> procedure. Is
there a reason to not just run 'yum update' ?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> 56k dialup .......... :-( <br>> <br><br><br>I would highly recommend that if you want to upgrade via an ISO, you get<br>the DVD and do a yum upgrade against the root directory of the mounted<br>DVD ... OR ... copy all the CD's into a local tree and do the upgrade<br>with yum pointing at that.<br><br>The "upgradeany" will work, but it makes some assumptions ... one of<br>which is that this is a major upgrade between versions (otherwise you<br>would use yum), so some things will be done that may not be required ...<br>like running some configure scripts, etc.<br><br>CentOS is designed to do "yum updates" within a major release (ie<br>CentOS-3.x to any newer CentOS-3.x, CentOS-4.x to any newer CentOS-4.x).<br><br>The "upgradeany" method is the only recommended upgrade
from one major<br>release to another (ie, CentOS-3.x to CentOS-4.x) ... and even then, a<br>full reinstall is MOST highly encouraged:<br><br> </jperrin></blockquote><br> <br> <div class="MsoNormal">Hi Jim!</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><br> I am well aware that the preferred Centos method of upgrading is to use yum.<br> But this requires the user to have a good high speed Inter Net connection for<br> reliable updates.<span style=""> </span>I have this at work but not at home.<br> <o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Using a DVD and yum might be a possibility except that the system being<br> used is an older<span style=""> </span>Athlon 1.3 ghz machine with <span style=""> </span>CR-ROM and CD-RW<br> drives.<span style=""> </span>No DVD and only<span style=""> </span>USB 1.1 ports.<o:p> :-(<br> </o:p></div> <div
class="MsoNormal">Seeing that Linux is suppose to be a good choice for running on older<br> (but in this case not that old) equipment, it would be nice if the<br> ‘upgradeany’ method was improved for people that are in a similar<br> situation as me.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The ‘upgradeany’ test I did was on a ‘test only’ removable drive and not<br> on my main system drive, so it was a test, and only a test.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div> <br>