On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote: > > Here is what I wrote: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-May/126307.html > > "... It's a test machine that replicates a production server. ..." > > How would you improve it in order to remedy the apparent confusion? But in an earlier post you said it was a 'server environment' which at least sort-of implies that it is serving something. > > I appreciate your and others' efforts at advice. I'm simply trying to use > existing hardware (that's the eco-friendly approach), and trying to build > my understanding of the Fedora/CentOS operational relationships. Fedora doesn't support/recommend in-place upgrades across major versions or at least didn't for those versions. My experience was that even within a major rev. an update could kill your system. CentOS doesn't support/recommend in-place upgrades across major versions. > Given > that it has been stated that CentOS 5.x was built from FC6, and that > someone had already offered general guidance on the upgrade procedure (I > shared the link in my initial request), I thought that it would be > worthwhile asking the CentOS-users list to see if someone from this > community had any direct experience with the upgrade. I'm not yet looking > for a recommendation for a clean install. I have seen success stories for FC6->CentOS conversions, along with some quirky stuff you have to to to fix it up. If you google enough you might be able to do that. However, FC2 was not at all like FC6 and I doubt if you'll find anyone who has made that or even a part of the FC2->FC6 path work. It would be crazy to try that without good backups. But if you have a place for the backups, you could use it instead to install and test a system that will work. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com