On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, John R Pierce wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?
On 07/30/10 10:26 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner but NOT guru.
backup your files, configurations, etc, wipe the system, clean install centos 5, restore your configurations and files.
if all your user and server files are on seperate file systems from /, /var, /usr, then you may be able to leave them inplace as long as you're careful with the installer not to touch your data filesystems.
I have written a set of bash scripts to automate doing a fresh installation of Centos 5.5 They were originally written for Fedora 12, and have just finished doing a clean installation run using them to install Centos 5.5 on my laptop.
I went from F8 to F12 with these scripts, with no real problems.
Anybody interested in a copy of them - they will be BSD or similar license ?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts