On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 00:54 -0500, Mike Kercher wrote: > centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:43 > AM: > > > I had a CentOS 4.1 installation (LVM over RAID1), and tried > > to do an update to the 4.3 release. > > Nothing too fancy, I did all the partitions with the > > graphical installer for the > > 4.1 Version. > %<-----snip > > > > > I'm not a newbie, I have quite a while working with linux, > > and I just want to aware people who are going to perform an > > update, skipping some version in between or perhaps moving to > > 4.3 to be very carefull in the process. > > I think this was a experience that was worth telling and > > researching to find out what really happend. > > > > Why did you not just 'yum upgrade' to go from 4.1 to 4.3? > > Mike > Mike is exactly right ... All CentOS installs are upgradeable with the major version via yum at all times. (That is, any CentOS-4 is upgradable to the latest CentOS-4.x version via yum ... any CentOS-3 is upgradeable to any CentOS-3.x, etc.) What is not recommended (for yum) is upgrading between major versions ... ie upgrading via yum to CentOS-4 from CentOS-3. In fact, we recommend that you backup data, do a new install and move your data over when you move from one major CentOS version to another. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060409/45bf2dda/attachment-0005.sig>