you can upgrade from rh9 to centos (but not by using a disk) and I find centos as a desktop (as well as a server) to be excellent. cajun wrote: > Bryan J. Smith wrote: > >> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:53 -0500, cajun wrote: >> >>> I am running right now RH9 fully updated on a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC >>> with 512megs of Ram, 18G SCSI HD ... RH9 disk 1 checked out fine, so I >>> dropped in the CentOS disk 1 and ran it. It checked out fine and so >>> did all the rest of them. Is this a vaild test?? Or am I just blowing >>> in the wind here?? Thanks for any input into this matter!! >> >> >> >> Any reason you want to install CentOS when you have a running RHL9 >> system? >> >> BTW, although I've had no major issues updating RHL to FC releases, as >> FC is the logical upgrade path, RHEL/CentOS is not designed to be an >> upgrade option for RHL. >> >> > Hi All, > > Thanks for the replies. Sorry to get anything started. I should have > been more clear up front. I have been looking at FC for a while now and > I knew that you could upgrade from RHL to FC, with little or no trouble. > And I also knew that from RHL you can not do an upgrade to > RHEL/CentOS. I was looking at doing a fresh install from scratch even > with FC. From some of the stories I have read, I figured a fresh > install would be easier for me. Besides I need the practice in > remembering where everything is. Like cups, firewall scripts, login > scripts, samba scripts, etc., etc., etc., haha!!! > > The main reason I was shifting to CentOS is because of the longer life > cycle. I have enjoyed my RH9 now for the past 2+ years without any > troubles. I have decided over the past couple of months that FC is a > little to bleeding edge for me right now. Next year about this time, > that is another story. > > But though, can I say that by using mediacheck in RH9 and checking my > CentOS ISO's and them Passing, is this a valid check??? > > Anyways enough eating up bandwith, Thanks again!!! > > Lee Perez > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos