On Thursday, May 12, 2011 04:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > One upgrade I did from C4 to C5 (with upgradeany) was smoother than the last > LTS upgrade I tried. I liken the C5 -> C6 upgrade path as trying to take a > Ubuntu LTS 6.06 to a 10.04; which path I tried, and failed, to get working. > In one case it was with a Dell laptop that came with Ubuntu from Dell, and > that is supported by Dell with Ubuntu. Sound quit (known issue), wireless > went funky. One 'accidental' (client-initiated) upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 > lost keyboard and mouse after gdm got control.
6.04->10.04? Nah, you are supposed to jump to 8.04 and then to 10.04. > > And even with Dell's that have RHEL support, I've seen issues with CentOS > upgrades; but, then again, neither CentOS nor RHEL ( nor SL) support > upgrading. > > Upgrades are difficult problems to solve, and at the moment I don't know of > any distribution (that claims upgradability) that gets it completely right > for all the cases I've tried. Not even Debian? On the OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana side of things, I have not had problems. And you get a complete rollback option too as a bonus. > > The CentOS path (it's not supported, but if you're brave and know exactly > what you're doing there is upgradeany to let you shoot yourself in the foot) > I feel is the correct one. Right...maybe no longer after you have tasted OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana upgrading _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
