On 11/11/2010 9:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>>> Having done several upgrades from CentOS 4 to CentOS 5, my recommendation
>>> would be to not even try it. There is all kinds of ugliness left over that
>>> has to be cleaned up; I did it in the end, but it took a lot longer than
>>> doing a clean install.
>>>
>> That's the point.
>>
>> The cost to upgrade is probably higher than a clean installation.
>>
>> It has changed so much between RHEL5 and RHEL6.
>>
>> I recommend everyone a clean installation.
>
> I think the only 'clean' upgrade I had was Centos 5.2 -> 5.3 and that
> happened by accident!
Errr, you should be able to 'yum update' any 5.x to any other with few
surprises. Did you mean 4.2 as the starting point there?
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Les Mikesell
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