On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 12:35 +0100, Michiel van Es wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 11:25 +0100, Michiel van Es wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>I would like to try to switch from CentOS 3.4 => CentOS 4 beta. > >> > >>I hava a couple of questions: > >> > >>-is possible to upadte/upgrade my test box from 3.4 => 4 and what are > >>the yum.conf settings/requirements? > > > > > > I tried with yum, it didn't work out very well. Since python and rpm > > have major upgrades in the process it doesn't go well. I was able to > > get the upgrade done, but the end result was not as user friendly as I > > would like. > > so I noticed :( > > > > > > >>-is it easy to update your CentOS 4 beta => CentOS 4 when the stable > >>version comes out? > > > > > > When I used anaconda the results were much better. At the first > > isolinux prompt, type the command: > > > > linux upgradeany > > > > And then pick upgrade the CentOS install. > > > > This method worked OK for 4 test installs that I upgraded. (x86 > > workstation, x86 server, x86_64 workstation, x86_64 server). > > > > So, my recommendation, use anaconda and not yum to do the upgrade. > > > > I expect the RHEL final to be released soon...they have removed all the > > files from the RHN RHEL4 Beta Channels. That is exactly what they did > > before the last release of RHEL 3. You might want to wait unless this > > is a test machine. > > Well..perhaps it is better to switch to the Final then..but will the > upgrade to 4 Final be much better with yum then the 4 beta? I'm not sure if the yum upgrade will be any easier ... but we can detail a procedure to do it. But as I said before, the anaconda upgrade was much more user friendly, and it had more consistent final results (only CentOS-4 packages, not as many stray CentOS-3 things left over, etc.) Johnny Hughes