Moving from Centos to Fedora 9

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sep 13, 2008, at 14:41, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I've decided that I want a more cutting edge distro. While I run  
> RHEL at work and Centos 5.2 at home, there are some features in  
> Fedora 9 (as well as SuSE 11 andUbuntu 8.04 that are not available  
> in Centos through the standard repositories (although I can grab  
> them directly).
>
> While I will probably do a clean install, is it possible to do an  
> upgrade install.

Possible, yes... RHEL5 is essentially a fork of Fedora Core 6, so  
there's something of an upgrade path that might work. However, going  
forward three whole Fedora releases in one fell swoop isn't guaranteed  
to be the smoothest thing around. Technically, Fedora only supports  
upgrading from the prior release, and only via the installer. Going  
from RHEL5 to F9 via the installer might work, might crash and burn.  
Going RHEL5 -> F7 -> F8 -> F9 via the installer is more likely to work  
smoother, but take forever. Straight yum upgrade should also be  
doable. Basically, its not something I'd really recommend, unless you  
are willing to spend a while untangling potential conflicts,  
especially if you've installed any 3rd-party software. Backing up your  
user data and reinstalling is going to be a LOT less error-prone, and  
likely faster as well.

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Jarod Wilson
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