Rudi Ahlers wrote:
I'm running Centos-5.1 but am a complete Centos newbie. What is the best way of installing Centos-5.2 ? Is a fresh installation recommended, or can one do a yum upgrade? Or is there any other way of proceeding?
As a complete newbie, get used to CentOS 5.1 first, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Then, wait until CentOS OFFICIALLY announce the release of CentOS 5.2. Wait for it to be available on their website, and on the mirror servers, then do a yum upgrade :)
Well, I assumed from the title of the message that Centos-5.2 had been "officially released". I did in fact look on the Centos web-site, and I deduced from that (possibly wrongly) that Centos-5.2 was to be released a couple of days ago.
When I say I am a complete newbie, I should say that my server has been running under Centos-5.1 for several months. I haven't had to do anything to it, so in that sense I am a newbie. I have been running Fedora on my laptops since Fedora first came out, so am reasonably familiar with the general setup.
I like to keep reasonably up-to-date with distributions I am running, so would like to update to Centos-5.2 as and when it is released.