On 11/30/2011 06:18 AM, ken wrote: > On 11/30/2011 06:36 AM Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I want to move my home server over to a new machine, >> both running CentOS. >> (The present server is running CentOS-5.7, the new one 6.0.) >> I'm thinking of moving things over one at a time, >> starting with email. >> I'm running IMAP on the server, >> with my email in ~/Maildir/ . >> I'm wondering what exactly I need to copy to the new machine? >> >> Any help or suggestions gratefully received. > > If it were me, I'd copy the entire old machine (running 5.7) over to the > new machine so that after the copy it was also running 5.7, then upgrade > the new machine to 6.0. ...unless you like making things more > complicated than they need to be. An upgrade on the same machine from 5.7 to 6.x is not supported and would always leave behind a bunch of old libraries, etc. The way he is doing it is the correct way (at least as recommended by RH for RHEL and by us for CentOS. http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20111130/64020f64/attachment-0005.sig>