[CentOS] centos 3.3 to 4.x?

Thu Jan 4 15:11:08 UTC 2007
Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>

On 04/01/07, R Lists06 <lists06 at abbacomm.net> wrote:
> A friend of mine is running 3.3
> He asked what I thought about going to 4.4
>
> I imagine it is best to backup and fresh install and migrate old configs and
> data
> What is the wisdom on the list
> I remember going from beta 3 to 3 a long time ago.
> Anyone ever upgrade from 3.x to 4.x without problem and how so?
> I didn't see a lot on the www other than some apt-get info

We went from various RH9 and earlier and FC3 and earlier builds
straight to WBEL/CentOS 4 and in every case backed-up, rebuilt the box
from scratch then pieced configs back together as much as possible in
keeping with OS defaults, trying to fit in to the RHEL way.

I think I recall from previous similar threads that people *have*
upgraded from 3 to 4 but the general concensus was that if you can,
you should rebuild from scratch.

The main benefit being any configuration gotchas will be apparent
straight away as you're configuring each specific aspect of your/their
system.

Will.