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