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.... mark