> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:51 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0 > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Thomas Dukes > <tdukes at sc.rr.com> wrote: > > 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/Inst > > allati > > 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!! > > @Thomas: I'm a "newbie" home user, with CentOS on our > Desktops, and Red Hat Linux, before that. > > I do not believe you understand the philosophy behind CentOS > (an Enterprise OS) or RHEL (the upstream distro). This is a > distro with a > *LONG* life, and without the "latest and greatest", for > security and stability reasons. > > It has always been recommended to do a "Clean Install" when > moving from one major version (ie: 5.x) to a newer version > (ie: 6.x) and then to Restore your data, from your backup. > > If you do it in some other fashion, there are apt to be > problems, which will probably not be supported on this list. > If you break it, you will fix it. > > There is a lot of information available, on CentOS.org in the Wiki. > HowTos, FAQs, etc. If you look there, you will find many > things explained clearly. > > Also, if you search the archives of the mailing list, you > will find a ton of information, from a large group of highly > knowledgeable users. > People who work with CentOS in the Enterprise, all day, every day. > > Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is > frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. There are 3rd > party Yum repositories, with lots of things that have been > packaged for CentOS and you can install them with Yum, once > you have the Repository data ready for yum. You probably > won't need to rebuild many packages, if any, if you use the > 3rd party repositories. GL I have never had a problem upgrading a CentOS release since I started with 3.x. Seems now, I can't even upgrade from 5.6 to 5.7. I have never had to do a complete re-install since moving from Slackware 1.x to Redhat 2.x except once when I had a hard drive failure. I'll be moving to Ubunto. They have a 3 year window for support on a distribution unlike CentOS/RHEL. They seem to be more user friendly for a home networking environment. The software package I use which takes hours of trial and error to compile and install is as simple apt-get install under Ubunto. There are no rpms for zoneminder 1.24.x. The compliation of ffmpeg/zoneminder seems to be an issue with CentOS with the outdated php/mysql and other various libs. I can see the direction RHEL is taking and its more and more like Microsoft. The enduser is having to be more and more dependent on the provider. CentOS has its hands tied. I thank all for the help I have recievied over the years, its just not beneficial to stay this current direction. TE Dukes