Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: My personal goal was to preserve the topology of the disk layout, as well as the configurations. Which are trivial to reproduce. And potentially improve in the process. It may be trivial for you, b

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: > > My personal goal was to preserve the topology of the disk layout, as well > as the configurations. Which are trivial to reproduce. And potentially improve in the process. >> And you still have yet to explain what you think the result of the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, "Max Pyziur" wrote: > [... deleted for the sake of brevity ...] >> Much thanks to thoughtful comments and cautions, > > > You might want to crawl /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr and /var for files not under > management and see if

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: >> >> I recognize that most of the comments were from sysadmins, more involved >> in managing server farms, and steeped in that knowledge/experience base. > > And in upgrades, and thus have experience wit

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: > > I recognize that most of the comments were from sysadmins, more involved > in managing server farms, and steeped in that knowledge/experience base. And in upgrades, and thus have experience with the difference in effort and results And y

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, "Max Pyziur" wrote: >> On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 02:56:24 PM Max Pyziur wrote: >>> My hope is to upgrade; that way I don't have to change/specify partition >>> topology, and hopefully only minimally adjust the existing >>> configurations. >> >> I have tried this typ

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
> On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 02:56:24 PM Max Pyziur wrote: >> My hope is to upgrade; that way I don't have to change/specify partition >> topology, and hopefully only minimally adjust the existing >> configurations. > > I have tried this type of upgrade before; I have not had it go well for > the m