[K12OSN]Upgrade questions

[Nils Breunese]

Patrick Fleming wrote:

> Nils Breunese wrote:
>> Patrick Fleming wrote:
>>> I run K12LTSP for a six person tax office so I'm not about to do  
>>> any changes until May, but I'm running version 6. I could move to  
>>> Fedora 7 or 8 as the base system but I think I would rather move  
>>> to CentOS as the base install. I would prefer to be able to do  
>>> this by modifying the YUM repositories and installing whichever - 
>>> release rpm file needed. Has anyone moved from Fedora to CentOS  
>>> successfully? I'm looking for pointers and gotchas.
>> I have done this once on a desktop system (no LTSP), but it's not  
>> pretty (and involved getting out the rescue cd several times). I  
>> recommend backing up your data and doing a fresh install.
>> Nils Breunese.
>
> You've done the move from Fedora to CentOS? I have been trying to  
> find anything that would indicate that it has been done  
> successfully, but have not found anything written. All of my other  
> upgrades have been Fedora based versions to newer Fedora versions  
> since somewhere around version 4 or so.

I did CentOS to Fedora on a workstation. I imagine the other way  
around will yield similar problems. I don't have any notes of what I  
did and I don't remember the exact versions. The basic idea is the  
same as with a Fedora to Fedora upgrade via yum, but be prepared for  
several nasty problems if you go and try it. Your system might not  
boot on its own afterwards. If you're comfortable using the rescue cd  
and manually cleaning up rpm messes you could try it, but I'm not  
going to do it again myself and I consider myself to be a fairly  
competent rpm ninja. It cost me like a day to clean up the mess.

Nils Breunese.