Moving from Centos to Fedora 9

[Stephen Adler]

I second the comment strongly....

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2008, at 14:41, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> 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.
>>     
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> 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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