[CentOS] Upgrade

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
>
> I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now
> appears to be CentOD 4.8.
>
> 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff
> installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing
> all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything up,
> uninstall/reinstall
> things, etc. I am wondering whether there is some way to upgrade to Fedora
> from CentOS without just having to reinstall everything?
>
<shameless self-promotion>
I wrote an article that was published in SysAdmin, before it went under.
<http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc>

And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other
drives, or at least other partitions....

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