Matt Bottrell wrote: > I'm constantly surprised how many people wish to 'upgrade'. > > Historically I've been updating my Linux distro when Redhat still was > shipped in nappies. I've learnt pretty early on the following: [...] > 4. Choose to install fresh (not upgrade), and format the existing > partitions /, /usr, /tmp and /var.... whilst you probably wish to > keep /usr/local and /home. Matt: I agree with you, fresh installs are my preferred "upgrade" path. But I was just curious what to do in a remote server situation? I manage about a dozen boxes remotely. They are running CentOS3.3 right now. When CentOS4 becomes final, I would like to upgrade. But not sure if there's a way to do it "fresh" since I'm not at the machines physically. Along the same lines, does RedHat themselves have an official position about upgrades from RHEL3 to RHEL4? johnn