<div>On 11/7/05, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <snip> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You might want to consider switching to either Centos4.x or fedora FC4, either of which will have mysql 4.x as part of the distribution so the normal update procedure not only will work but will include updates for the installed mysql. Using Centos has the advantage of being able to expect several years of update support before you have to re-install again. FC4 would have more current desktop apps. </blockquote></div>You know. Maybe I should go for FC4 now. (We decided to make the best of this downtime (of this server) and might switch to Oracle (they have an automatic mysql ----> Oracle migration utility), and they allow in house (for developers) use for free. AND, the stuff/libs/rpm's they prerequisite ships with fc4. But I am worried that FC3 ---> FC4 migration will cause loss of data or other migration 'issues'. I don't want to hijack this thread, but maybe a url or blog describing this experience, can be posted by someone. Thanks. -nat