Beau,
Subject: Re: [Centos] HOWTO? Upgrade Centos-2 to Centos-3
John Newbin has been working on a migration center. It may have some useful information; get it here:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/migration.htm
Correct me if I am wrong, but centos 2 is based off or redhat 7.2, so it may work.
Check out the CentOS/RedHat family tree at the bottom of the migration center.
BTW, I recently did a desktop install RedHat 9 to CentOS-3 migration as an experiment. There were come package incompatibilities that blocked the migration via YUM, so I did "yum remove" on each package that yum complained about. After removing a couple of rpm's, the migration went ahead. Afterward, I did "yum install" to put the packages back that I had removed. That seems to be a successful approach.
Rick
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:29:05 +1000 From: Beau Henderson silentbob@gmail.com Reply-To: Beau Henderson silentbob@gmail.com To: centos@caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] HOWTO? Upgrade Centos-2 to Centos-3
I wrote a pretty simple howto for redhat 9 - centos 3.1 a while back. I know of a few that have gone from 7.3 to centos 3.1, with this howto, so perhaps it may help in your case. Correct me if I am wrong but centos 2 is based off or redhat 7.2, so it may work. Of course, i wouldn't try this on a production box first off:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=276534
CentOS2 -> CentOS3 is tricky because almost everything needs to be upgraded. Although most things can probably be sorted out, rpm and it's dependents, yum and it's dependents (python) and probably glibc will be the problems, mainly because they are running at the time you are trying to install the new ones. If anyone tries it, send me the procedure but I think it might be easier to reinstall.
There will also be problems with things like printing changing from lpr to cups etc.
RedHat do not provide up upgrade option/procedure so I think you can take that as an indicator of how well it might work.
John.
Rick Graves wrote:
Beau,
Subject: Re: [Centos] HOWTO? Upgrade Centos-2 to Centos-3
John Newbin has been working on a migration center. It may have some useful information; get it here:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/migration.htm
Correct me if I am wrong, but centos 2 is based off or redhat 7.2, so it may work.
Check out the CentOS/RedHat family tree at the bottom of the migration center.
BTW, I recently did a desktop install RedHat 9 to CentOS-3 migration as an experiment. There were come package incompatibilities that blocked the migration via YUM, so I did "yum remove" on each package that yum complained about. After removing a couple of rpm's, the migration went ahead. Afterward, I did "yum install" to put the packages back that I had removed. That seems to be a successful approach.
Rick
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:29:05 +1000 From: Beau Henderson silentbob@gmail.com Reply-To: Beau Henderson silentbob@gmail.com To: centos@caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] HOWTO? Upgrade Centos-2 to Centos-3
I wrote a pretty simple howto for redhat 9 - centos 3.1 a while back. I know of a few that have gone from 7.3 to centos 3.1, with this howto, so perhaps it may help in your case. Correct me if I am wrong but centos 2 is based off or redhat 7.2, so it may work. Of course, i wouldn't try this on a production box first off:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=276534
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