Yup. I'm a recent convert from WBEL - Rita and Katrina seem to have put a full stop to WBEL. I appreciate the enormity of what John's dealing with, but since he won't let it scale beyond himself, I had to go somewhere else.

Here's a bash script I wrote to convert my several dozen machines to CentOS4. It references RPMs from 4.1 tree, which can be obtained from vault.centos.org. (I had dependency problems using the 4.2 tree stuff; but the yum -y update at the bottom updates the newly converted 4.1 system to 4.2 anyway.

#! /bin/sh ################################################################################3 # #       wbel2centos4.sh - a script to change over a WBEL4 server to CentOS4. # #       see http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19 # # # # Step 5 is done BEFORE step 4 to eliminate possibilities of removed yum # "cruft"... # # License: This script is in the public domain. Use/abuse as you see fit; # no warrantee of any kind is implied. # ################################################################################3 arch="i386";

# 64 bit is not well tested. #arch="x86_64";

# Step 1; yum clean all;

# Step 2; RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 rpm --import os/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4

# Step 3; rpm -e diskdumputils; rpm -Uvh ./os/initscripts-7.93.13.EL-2.centos4.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh ./os/centos-release-4-1.2.i386.rpm

# Step 5; rpm -e yum; if [ -f /etc/yum* ] ; then  mkdir /etc/BLOAT;  mv /etc/yum* BLOAT;  fi;

# step 4; rpm -Uvh ./os/centos-yumconf-4-4.2.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh ./os/yum-2.2.1-1.centos4.noarch.rpm

# set up the repos rsync -vaz --delete yum.repos.d /etc

# Step 6; yum -y update;

exit 0;

On Friday 28 October 2005 11:10, Brad Olin wrote:

Hi all,

Does anybody have experience with updating a wbel4 box to centos4? I assume I can follow the basic faq19 instructions, but that's an assumption.

Thanks in advance

Brad _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brad Olin Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 2:11 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] update a wbel4 to centos4

Hi all,

Does anybody have experience with updating a wbel4 box to centos4? I assume I can follow the basic faq19 instructions, but that's an assumption.

Thanks in advance

Brad

Brad, Its works just fine. Just change the file links to match versions and you'll be fine.