CentOS - Jan 2010 - Upgrading from Fedora Core 7 to CentOS 5.4

Hi there --

I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution, Fedora Core
7, to the most recent
version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system. Can I do an
in-place upgrade of the
operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any issues that I
should be concerned
with before proceeding? Thanks.




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Quoting "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG>:
> Hi there --
>
> I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution,   
> Fedora Core
> 7, to the most recent
> version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system.   
> Can I do an
> in-place upgrade of the
> operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any   
> issues that I
> should be concerned
> with before proceeding? Thanks.
Err.. you cant just upgrade from fedora to centos. Take full backup  
and install centos and then just restore configurations from backup..

--
Eero,
RHCE

> Hi there --
>
> I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution, Fedora
> Core 7, to the most recent
> version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system. Can I
> do an in-place upgrade of the
> operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any issues
> that I should be concerned with before proceeding? Thanks.
We just went through this a month or so ago on this list. The answer is
that it is *very* much *not* a good idea. Do your backups, do a new
install, then restore. At best, you might try to install with /etc still
there.

         mark

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. <AHKAPLAN at
partners.org>wrote:
>  Hi there --
>
> I need to upgrade one of our systems from its current distribution, Fedora
> Core 7, to the most recent
> version distribution, release 5.4, of the CentOS operating system. Can I do
> an in-place upgrade of the
> operating system without any adverse side-effects? Are there any issues
> that I should be concerned
> with before proceeding? Thanks.
>
I think this isn't upgrade but downgrade, because Centos 5 more compatible
with fedora 6 package.
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