RE: [CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

2008-05-31 Thread Sorin Srbu
stest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did the upgrade dance with yum once when going from Fedora 5 to 7. It > worked, but took a lot of time and left a helluva' lot of obscure lib-failures > and stuff. I eve

Re: [CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

2008-05-30 Thread MHR
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did the upgrade dance with yum once when going from Fedora 5 to 7. It > worked, but took a lot of time and left a helluva' lot of obscure lib-failures > and stuff. I eventually got it working but I never felt sure it wouldn'

RE: [CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

2008-05-30 Thread Sorin Srbu
ur data first though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:07 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path Yum upgrades are the hardest to do, and are NOT recommend

Re: [CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

2008-05-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
Adrian Marsh wrote: Hi All, I've a question on upgrading Centos with the least downtime... The best way to accomoplish this is to backup all data and not upgrade the install at all. That is how Red Hat recommends that you do it for RHEL and how CentOS recommends it be done as well.

RE: [CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

2008-05-30 Thread Adrian Marsh
Found a thread here that seems to suggest it's the only way: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11128&forum=3 7 Oh Well.. Thanks anyway.. Adrian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

2008-05-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 07:51:24AM -0700, Adrian Marsh wrote: > Hi All, > > I’ve a question on upgrading Centos with the least downtime… > > I’ve a centos 4.6 machine, hosting my local Centos respository. I’d > like to upgrade the OS to 5.1 > > I’ve practised in a VMware machine upgrading it by

[CentOS] Fastest 4.6 -> 5.1 upgrade path

2008-05-30 Thread Adrian Marsh
Hi All, I've a question on upgrading Centos with the least downtime... I've a centos 4.6 machine, hosting my local Centos respository. I'd like to upgrade the OS to 5.1 I've practised in a VMware machine upgrading it by booting from a CD, but I wondered if YUM could do it, whilst keepi