Re: upgrade to Centos 5 question
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:38 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, It's always fun to play with a distribution that on one side has the latest tech, but on the other side, ditches you on the side after few months (and only giving you choice to upgrade, or be left without updates) I'm using Fedora Core 6 on my main web server, and today I found out that the security updates are no longer available for Fedora Core 6. Worse: ATRPMS, FreshRPMS are no longer maintained for FC6 which means that if I want the latest security stuff, I need to roll my own RPMS or fix things manually.. So I decided I want to upgrade from FC6 to Centos 5. I was wondering if anyone did it and if so, what method? what are the gotchas that I need to be careful of, or is it simply better to keep my data out, format the machine and install centos 5 from scratch? (Centos 5 does not recognize Fedora stuff, so the upgrade option is not given). Thanks, Hetz AFAIK You cannot cross-upgrade between Fedora and RHEL/CentOS. You'll have to do a fresh installation. (Which IMHO, is the best option to begin with) - Gilboa = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade to Centos 5 question
Hi, It's always fun to play with a distribution that on one side has the latest tech, but on the other side, ditches you on the side after few months (and only giving you choice to upgrade, or be left without updates) I'm using Fedora Core 6 on my main web server, and today I found out that the security updates are no longer available for Fedora Core 6. Worse: ATRPMS, FreshRPMS are no longer maintained for FC6 which means that if I want the latest security stuff, I need to roll my own RPMS or fix things manually.. So I decided I want to upgrade from FC6 to Centos 5. I was wondering if anyone did it and if so, what method? what are the gotchas that I need to be careful of, or is it simply better to keep my data out, format the machine and install centos 5 from scratch? (Centos 5 does not recognize Fedora stuff, so the upgrade option is not given). Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to Centos 5 question
On 28/01/2008, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It's always fun to play with a distribution that on one side has the latest tech, but on the other side, ditches you on the side after few months (and only giving you choice to upgrade, or be left without updates) I'm using Fedora Core 6 on my main web server, and today I found out that the security updates are no longer available for Fedora Core 6. Worse: ATRPMS, FreshRPMS are no longer maintained for FC6 which means that if I want the latest security stuff, I need to roll my own RPMS or fix things manually.. So I decided I want to upgrade from FC6 to Centos 5. I was wondering if anyone did it and if so, what method? what are the gotchas that I need to be careful of, or is it simply better to keep my data out, format the machine and install centos 5 from scratch? (Centos 5 does not recognize Fedora stuff, so the upgrade option is not given). Thanks, Hetz CentOS is based on RHEL, not Fedora. SO you cannot upgrade from one to the other. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: upgrade to Centos 5 question
[...] I installed Centos 5 on my home server and I update it frequently. But Centos 5 is not for home use - its distribution does not have media programs (like LVM, I wanted it for media streaming). So for home/media use, may be Fedora (now 8) is better for your needs (few RPMs are available for Centos on ATRPMS, FreshRPMS does not support RHEL/Centos at all). I agree that CentOS is usually not good for home. (I use it as home server, but run debian-unstable VMs inside :) ) Still, many RPMs are available through the amazing DAG repository: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ Also there is the new EPEL project, but it's 'limping' a little.. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL - Oren = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to Centos 5 question
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:38:21 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I'm using Fedora Core 6 on my main web server, and today I found out that the security updates are no longer available for Fedora Core 6. Worse: ATRPMS, FreshRPMS are no longer maintained for FC6 which means that if I want the latest security stuff, I need to roll my own RPMS or fix things manually.. So I decided I want to upgrade from FC6 to Centos 5. I was wondering if anyone did it and if so, what method? what are the gotchas that I need to be careful of, or is it simply better to keep my data out, format the machine and install centos 5 from scratch? (Centos 5 does not recognize Fedora stuff, so the upgrade option is not given). Think twice before you go the Centos way. I use both FC (now Fedora without `Core') and Centos in the office. Both work fine and I don't update the production machines (there is no access from the Internet except for mail and ssh). I installed Centos 5 on my home server and I update it frequently. But Centos 5 is not for home use - its distribution does not have media programs (like LVM, I wanted it for media streaming). So for home/media use, may be Fedora (now 8) is better for your needs (few RPMs are available for Centos on ATRPMS, FreshRPMS does not support RHEL/Centos at all). Ehud. BTW. If you go the Centos way, start with Centos 5.1. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D http://www.keyserver.net/Better Safe Than Sorry = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to Centos 5 question
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:00:50 +0200, Oren Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myself: But Centos 5 is not for home use - its distribution does not have media programs (like LVM, I wanted it for media streaming). So for home/media use, may be Fedora (now 8) is better for your needs (few RPMs are available for Centos on ATRPMS, FreshRPMS does not support RHEL/Centos at all). I agree that CentOS is usually not good for home. (I use it as home server, but run debian-unstable VMs inside :) ) Still, many RPMs are available through the amazing DAG repository: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ Also there is the new EPEL project, but it's 'limping' a little.. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL I use the EPEL repository (highly recommended) and also the RPMforge (http://rpmforge.net/) maintained by Dag. When I researched the LVM for Centos5 issue, I found that Dag had about 40% of the libraries needed, but still there was a lot of work to do to compile LVM for Centos5. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D http://www.keyserver.net/Better Safe Than Sorry = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
