On 4/6/21 3:29 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 4/6/21 9:24 AM, mark wrote: >> On 4/5/21 3:24 PM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: >>> I installed the beta when it came out on a VM running under C7. I >>> upgrade every day or two and Alma upgrades have so far been seamless. >>> It's transited from beta to RC and now to stable. >>> >>> I installed the RC on a USB stick to allow me to run as bare metal on >>> a laptop (which unfortunately has to remain as Win10). It ran fine >>> until the upgrade to stable, but then corrupted the image during the >>> upgrade. I reinstalled and it seems to be running fine. >> >> No one has said it, but everyone that's tried it - what's it at? I'm >> on CentOS 7. Do I have to go to 8 for Alma? Is there a 7? Is the >> conversion script someone mentioned for same release, or upgrade, or...? > > They will not be doing a 7. Just 8. > > That said ... it's probably a great idea to take this conversation over > to *their* mailing lists. There's an extent to which this conversation > is relevant to this list - after all, we're all part of the same > extended family now - but once it starts becoming a technical discussion > of Alma itself, it's veering off-topic, and you'll get better answers > over there. > > --Rich (With community manager hat on, trying to avoid this thread > getting out of hand. No, it's not yet. Just trying to avoid it.) +1 mark, CentOS 7 will be fully supported till EOL, so why waste time on AL7? I would not convert CL7 to any 8 but if that is only reason you are asking about AL7 then your best bet is to convert CL7 to last CL8 (not CS8) and then convert CL8 to AL8. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant