Mike Kercher wrote:
centos-bounces@centos.org <> scribbled on Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:43 AM:
I had a CentOS 4.1 installation (LVM over RAID1), and tried to do an update to the 4.3 release. Nothing too fancy, I did all the partitions with the graphical installer for the 4.1 Version.
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I'm not a newbie, I have quite a while working with linux, and I just want to aware people who are going to perform an update, skipping some version in between or perhaps moving to 4.3 to be very carefull in the process. I think this was a experience that was worth telling and researching to find out what really happend.
Why did you not just 'yum upgrade' to go from 4.1 to 4.3?
As I said before, this is a production server, so downtime is an important issue and had to be minimized. On the other hand, in my country, internet is very expensive, we pay US$100 for 128Kbps. That's the bandwidth I have available on the server, not to mention the technology used for wireless, which gave us huge delays, so the performance I get is even lower than 128Kbps. I know that yum could take me to the 4.3 with no problem, except for the time that it would have required. I also know that some versions of you (not the one shipped with 4.1) have the option to "download only", that might have help me, that is why I went to the option of upgrading via de CDs. I appriciate the suggestion, but I'm was not asking for that, I'm just trying to figure it out, what did happend. Is CentOS (or RHEL) not upgradeable skipping versions through CD or DVD?