No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner but NOT guru.
Todd
On 07/30/10 10:26 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner but NOT guru.
backup your files, configurations, etc, wipe the system, clean install centos 5, restore your configurations and files.
if all your user and server files are on seperate file systems from /, /var, /usr, then you may be able to leave them inplace as long as you're careful with the installer not to touch your data filesystems.
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, John R Pierce wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?
On 07/30/10 10:26 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner but NOT guru.
backup your files, configurations, etc, wipe the system, clean install centos 5, restore your configurations and files.
if all your user and server files are on seperate file systems from /, /var, /usr, then you may be able to leave them inplace as long as you're careful with the installer not to touch your data filesystems.
I have written a set of bash scripts to automate doing a fresh installation of Centos 5.5 They were originally written for Fedora 12, and have just finished doing a clean installation run using them to install Centos 5.5 on my laptop.
I went from F8 to F12 with these scripts, with no real problems.
Anybody interested in a copy of them - they will be BSD or similar license ?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
On Saturday 31 July 2010 08:47, Keith Roberts wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, John R Pierce wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?
On 07/30/10 10:26 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner but NOT guru.
backup your files, configurations, etc, wipe the system, clean install centos 5, restore your configurations and files.
if all your user and server files are on seperate file systems from /, /var, /usr, then you may be able to leave them inplace as long as you're careful with the installer not to touch your data filesystems.
I have written a set of bash scripts to automate doing a fresh installation of Centos 5.5 They were originally written for Fedora 12, and have just finished doing a clean installation run using them to install Centos 5.5 on my laptop.
I went from F8 to F12 with these scripts, with no real problems.
Anybody interested in a copy of them - they will be BSD or similar license ?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Yes, I would be interested in seeing them.
Am 31.07.2010 14:47, schrieb Keith Roberts:
I have written a set of bash scripts to automate doing a fresh installation of Centos 5.5 They were originally written for Fedora 12, and have just finished doing a clean installation run using them to install Centos 5.5 on my laptop.
I went from F8 to F12 with these scripts, with no real problems.
Anybody interested in a copy of them - they will be BSD or similar license ?
Yes, I'm interested much.
Gruß, Rainer
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Rainer Traut wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Rainer Traut tr.ml@gmx.de Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?
Am 31.07.2010 14:47, schrieb Keith Roberts:
I have written a set of bash scripts to automate doing a fresh installation of Centos 5.5 They were originally written for Fedora 12, and have just finished doing a clean installation run using them to install Centos 5.5 on my laptop.
I went from F8 to F12 with these scripts, with no real problems.
Anybody interested in a copy of them - they will be BSD or similar license ?
Yes, I'm interested much.
Gruß, Rainer
OK. I'll try and get them onto my website ASAP. The user documentation needs looking at first.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
To: Rainer Traut tr.ml@gmx.de From: Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Rainer Traut wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Rainer Traut tr.ml@gmx.de Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?
Am 31.07.2010 14:47, schrieb Keith Roberts:
I have written a set of bash scripts to automate doing a fresh installation of Centos 5.5 They were originally written for Fedora 12, and have just finished doing a clean installation run using them to install Centos 5.5 on my laptop.
I went from F8 to F12 with these scripts, with no real problems.
Anybody interested in a copy of them - they will be BSD or similar license ?
Yes, I'm interested much.
Gruß, Rainer
OK. I'll try and get them onto my website ASAP. The user documentation needs looking at first.
Here's the link to my AutoLinuxInstaller scripts for Centos 5.5, including some docs.
http://www.karsites.net/centos/anyuser/auto-linux-installer.php
Best approach is to test them out on a spare machine first - just to get to know how they work.
You will need to customize the stage1-configure-system.bsh master script (and some scripts this calls) for the machine you would like to use these scripts on. That only needs to be done once per machine. And once that's done you can almost completely automate the next installation.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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