On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Thomas Dukes <tdukes at sc.rr.com> wrote: > Help! > > Just ran the installation DVD but there is no option to 'upgrade'. Looked > at > the RHEL docs, > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati > on_Guide/ch-guimode-x86.html#id4594292 referenced off the CentOS Release > notes but the CentOS installation doesn't offer the 'upgrade'. > > I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That doesn't work > either. > > Guess I'm stuck with 5.6 as I an not about to install a new version and > have > to rebuild all non-rpm packages from scratch. This is worse than > Microsoft!! > Red Hat does not support upgrades between major versions (doesn't necessarily mean it's not possible) http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html http://linsec.ca/blog/2011/02/23/my-adventure-upgrading-rhel5-to-rhel6/ Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux have a very different release strategies and version numbers. You can read more about the support lifecycle here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ -- Giovanni Tirloni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110723/673efa75/attachment-0005.html>