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 Worse: ATRPMS, FreshRPMS are no longer maintained for FC6 which means 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]