Hi there --
I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution, Fedora Core 7, to the most recent version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system. Can I do an in-place upgrade of the operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any issues that I should be concerned with before proceeding? Thanks.
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Quoting "Kaplan, Andrew H." AHKAPLAN@PARTNERS.ORG:
Hi there --
I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution, Fedora Core 7, to the most recent version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system. Can I do an in-place upgrade of the operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any issues that I should be concerned with before proceeding? Thanks.
Err.. you cant just upgrade from fedora to centos. Take full backup and install centos and then just restore configurations from backup..
-- Eero, RHCE
Hi there --
I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution, Fedora Core 7, to the most recent version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system. Can I do an in-place upgrade of the operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any issues that I should be concerned with before proceeding? Thanks.
We just went through this a month or so ago on this list. The answer is that it is *very* much *not* a good idea. Do your backups, do a new install, then restore. At best, you might try to install with /etc still there.
mark
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. AHKAPLAN@partners.orgwrote:
Hi there --
I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution, Fedora Core 7, to the most recent version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system. Can I do an in-place upgrade of the operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any issues that I should be concerned with before proceeding? Thanks.
I think this isn't upgrade but downgrade, because Centos 5 more compatible with fedora 6 package.
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