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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> centos-bounces@centos.org
[mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Giovanni
Tirloni<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 23, 2011 6:54 PM<BR><B>To:</B> CentOS
mailing list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to
6.0<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Thomas Dukes <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:tdukes@sc.rr.com">tdukes@sc.rr.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Help!<BR><BR>Just ran the installation DVD but there is no
option to 'upgrade'. Looked at<BR>the RHEL docs,<BR><A
href="http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati%0Aon_Guide/ch-guimode-x86.html#id4594292"
target=_blank>http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati<BR>on_Guide/ch-guimode-x86.html#id4594292</A>
referenced off the CentOS Release<BR>notes but the CentOS installation
doesn't offer the 'upgrade'.<BR><BR>I use to be able to upgrade by doing a
'yum update'. That doesn't work<BR>either.<BR><BR>Guess I'm stuck with 5.6
as I an not about to install a new version and have<BR>to rebuild all
non-rpm packages from scratch. This is worse than
Microsoft!!<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Red Hat does not support upgrades between major versions (doesn't
necessarily mean it's not possible)<BR><A
href="http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html">http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html</A><BR><A
href="http://linsec.ca/blog/2011/02/23/my-adventure-upgrading-rhel5-to-rhel6/">http://linsec.ca/blog/2011/02/23/my-adventure-upgrading-rhel5-to-rhel6/</A><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=312395323-23072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Since when?? I started with slackware 1.0 on a pentinum 1 system
from VaResearch</FONT> <FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>back in the
mid 90's, change to Redat 2.0, then Fedora, then to Whitebox, then CentOS..
Never had a problem upgrading on an rpm based system.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=312395323-23072011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN><BR>Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux have a very
different release strategies and version numbers. You can read more about the
support lifecycle here: <A
href="https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/">https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/</A><BR><BR>--
<BR>Giovanni Tirloni<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>