On 4/3/07, John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
centos@911networks.com wrote:
How difficult will it be to move from a server from FC6 to CentOS? No X needed, it's a server.
This is one of those questions: it's doable, but if you need to ask, probably not by you;-)
It might also be possible to force Anaconda to do the upgrade.
There is some probability > 0 that you will be left with orphaned and unsupported packages, depending on what you have installed.
Thanks John.
Basically if you have done updates to the system.. you will have 'orphaned' packages. Fedora Core 5 and 6 kernel, glibc, (or other things) have higher rev's than what is in CentOS-5. The best fix is to do a backup of /etc and other config files, backup your /home /var/I_do_stuff_here partition and install a fresh CentOS-5