At Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:26:08 +0000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8.
4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything up, uninstall/reinstall things, etc. I am wondering whether there is some way to upgrade to Fedora from CentOS without just having to reinstall everything?
You really *should* back everything up and do a fresh install of Fedora (or CentOS 5.5), then re-install your extra packages. You really don't want to upgrade in place, unless you really, really, know what you are doing and/or are willing to live with various (subtle) problems caused by possibly incompatible 'leftover' packages.
Hint: Having a separate file system for /home is a *good* thing. Having /usr/local on a separate file system also is gravey on the side... (for web servers /var/www, for mail servers /var/spool/mail, etc.).
- Done.
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