On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, John Summerfield wrote: > I maintain a RHL 7.3 system; what's involved in switching it to CentOS2.1? My sympathies go out to you. :-) > > I presume I need to replace the /etc/releases file, the yum configuration > and (maybe) force-reinstall some upgrades I have never actually tried to do the upgrade but years ago when RHEL (then called 2.1AS) was new, I used a 7.3 system to build the 2.1AS rpms. The biggest problem I had was that some of the 7.3 packages were newer then the 2.1AS packages. IIRC 2.1AS was based off of RHL 7.2. I suspect that trying to do the upgrade from 7.3 to CentOS2.1, _might_ leave you with some packages not up to date. Good luck!! Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com