I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8. 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything up, uninstall/reinstall things, etc. I am wondering whether there is some way to upgrade to Fedora from CentOS without just having to reinstall everything? - Done.
At Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:26:08 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > > > I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8. > > 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing > all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything up, uninstall/reinstall > things, etc. I am wondering whether there is some way to upgrade to Fedora > from CentOS without just having to reinstall everything?You really *should* back everything up and do a fresh install of Fedora (or CentOS 5.5), then re-install your extra packages. You really don't want to upgrade in place, unless you really, really, know what you are doing and/or are willing to live with various (subtle) problems caused by possibly incompatible 'leftover' packages. Hint: Having a separate file system for /home is a *good* thing. Having /usr/local on a separate file system also is gravey on the side... (for web servers /var/www, for mail servers /var/spool/mail, etc.).> > - Done. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, <tony.chamberlain at lemko.com> wrote:> > I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8. > > 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing > all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything up, uninstall/reinstall > things, etc. I am wondering whether there is some way to upgrade to Fedora > from CentOS without just having to reinstall everything? > > - Done.It's a bad idea to "upgrade" through major versions without doing a full reinstall. Also, going from Centos 4 to Fedora is very strange as Fedora is not meant for servers. You really should be using a Server OS (Like CentOS 5) instead of Fedora.
tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:> > I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now > appears to be CentOD 4.8. > > 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff > installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing > all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything up, > uninstall/reinstall > things, etc. I am wondering whether there is some way to upgrade to Fedora > from CentOS without just having to reinstall everything? ><shameless self-promotion> I wrote an article that was published in SysAdmin, before it went under. <http://24.5-cent.us/upgrading_linux.doc> And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other partitions.... mark