[CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

Wed Jul 6 19:55:16 UTC 2011
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:27:08 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> What is the best way to install CentOS 6?
> Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6?
> If so, how does this compare with a clean installation?

The rule of thumb is to always to a fresh clean installation when
upgrading from a major version (eg 5.x to 6.x).  Make a backup of your
configuration files.  Presumably, your /home and/or /var/www directories
are on their own file systems -- this makes things easier, althogh for a
production server environment, you really want to do a fresh install on
a fresh 'machine' (or virtual host), and then migrate services and
content, testing as you go.

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