On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, <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? > > - Done. It's a bad idea to "upgrade" through major versions without doing a full reinstall. Also, going from Centos 4 to Fedora is very strange as Fedora is not meant for servers. You really should be using a Server OS (Like CentOS 5) instead of Fedora.