OS Future now that Fedora Legacy defunct

[Donald Tripp]

Since both distributions use essentially the same packages, just  
different versions, you can save all your configuration files, re- 
install, then replace the files with minimal change, if any, and have  
a CentOS system in a few hours.


- Donald Tripp
  dtripp at hawaii.edu
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HPC Systems Administrator
High Performance Computing Center
University of Hawai'i at Hilo
200 W. Kawili Street
Hilo,   Hawaii   96720
http://www.hpc.uhh.hawaii.edu


On Dec 21, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Anne Wilson <cannewilson <at> tiscali.co.uk> writes:
>> I'm less than happy.  If I have to install afresh to get a secure  
>> system I'll
>> probably change to CentOS rather than install FC6 on those boxes.
>
> Hint: You can force CentOS to upgrade a Fedora installation. "linux  
> upgradeany"
> is your friend. But the CentOS version has to be significantly  
> newer than the
> Fedora version for you to get away with this. FC4->CentOS5 will  
> most likely
> work, FC5->CentOS5 might be problematic due to updates, FC6->CentOS5,
> FC4->CentOS4 etc. are all recipes for disaster.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
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