On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 05:07 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > >> I'm running Centos-5.1 but am a complete Centos newbie. > >> What is the best way of installing Centos-5.2 ? > >> Is a fresh installation recommended, > >> or can one do a yum upgrade? > >> Or is there any other way of proceeding? > > > As a complete newbie, get used to CentOS 5.1 first, there's absolutely > > nothing wrong with it. Then, wait until CentOS OFFICIALLY announce the > > release of CentOS 5.2. Wait for it to be available on their website, and > > on the mirror servers, then do a yum upgrade :) > > Well, I assumed from the title of the message that Centos-5.2 had been > "officially released". > I did in fact look on the Centos web-site, and I deduced from that > (possibly wrongly) that Centos-5.2 was to be released a couple of days ago. > > When I say I am a complete newbie, I should say that my server > has been running under Centos-5.1 for several months. > I haven't had to do anything to it, > so in that sense I am a newbie. > I have been running Fedora on my laptops since Fedora first came out, > so am reasonably familiar with the general setup. > > I like to keep reasonably up-to-date with distributions I am running, > so would like to update to Centos-5.2 as and when it is released. ---- you will be up to date simply by running 'yum update' When 5.2 is released, those updates will be installed Craig