I want to get Centos 5 on my notebook, at minimal risk. I want to install it on a clean drive, make sure it 'works', the delete everything but /home (which is on a separate partition) from the Centos 4 drive and copy the Centos 5 over. Any 'caviats'? I would first tar up the Centos 4 stuff before putting my foot into it. To what extent do I need to have the same drive layouts? Is it enough that /boot and / are consistant (ie each is in its own partition). I am working with /home in a separate partition. Thanks for the help!