On 6/23/08, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
And I add my thanks too, to the whole CentOS crew.
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?
Not having read the Release Notes or Announcement, I did "yum update", instead of "yum upgrade", which I should have done, on my CentOS 5.1 Desktop box, which was up to date, this afternoon. 284 Packages were excluded for Priorities. It installed 10 new Packages and Updated 233 Packages. DL size was 489 MB and took 61 minutes for the DL, on our 550 kbps connection (after I finished, I did a test on speedtest.net to a server in Fort Lauderdale, FL and the DL speed at that time was 1780 kbps from that Server in FLL). I noticed when it was Updating pam there was a warning. Also, I have SELinux running in Permissive mode and there were several warnings, which I'm sure is normal, when doing an Upgrade like this. I noticed that it installed yum-fastestmirror which is much better for me, than using the nearest mirror! I believe our route to the USA is via satellite, from Medellin, Colombia into Orlando, FL. The move from Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 should be a big improvement for those of us who are Desktop users. The entire process took approximately 2 hours 15 minutes and it was FLAWLESS. A HUGE THANK YOU, TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PUT SO MUCH OF THEIR TIME INTO THIS, FOR THOSE OF US IN THE CentOS COMMUNITY! Lanny