On Saturday 31 July 2010 08:47, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > > > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to > > 5? > > > > On 07/30/10 10:26 PM, Todd Cary wrote: > >> No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to > >> upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used > >> (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner > >> but NOT guru. > > > > backup your files, configurations, etc, wipe the system, clean install > > centos 5, restore your configurations and files. > > > > if all your user and server files are on seperate file systems from /, > > /var, /usr, then you may be able to leave them inplace as long as you're > > careful with the installer not to touch your data filesystems. > > I have written a set of bash scripts to automate doing a > fresh installation of Centos 5.5 They were originally > written for Fedora 12, and have just finished doing a clean > installation run using them to install Centos 5.5 on my > laptop. > > I went from F8 to F12 with these scripts, with no real > problems. > > Anybody interested in a copy of them - they will be BSD or > similar license ? > > Kind Regards, > > Keith Roberts > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Yes, I would be interested in seeing them.