Moving from Centos to Fedora 9

[Jerry Feldman]

On 09/13/2008 04:18 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2008, at 14:41, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> Possible, yes... RHEL5 is essentially a fork of Fedora Core 6, so=20
> there's something of an upgrade path that might work. However, going=20
> forward three whole Fedora releases in one fell swoop isn't guaranteed =

> to be the smoothest thing around. Technically, Fedora only supports=20
> upgrading from the prior release, and only via the installer. Going=20
> from RHEL5 to F9 via the installer might work, might crash and burn.=20
> Going RHEL5 -> F7 -> F8 -> F9 via the installer is more likely to work =

> smoother, but take forever. Straight yum upgrade should also be=20
> doable. Basically, its not something I'd really recommend, unless you=20
> are willing to spend a while untangling potential conflicts,=20
> 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=20
> likely faster as well.
>
I was just curious, and I'll probably do a full install.

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