[K12OSN] Need advice on recovering from failed boot disk
Jeff Siddall
news at siddall.name
Mon Aug 15 22:17:02 UTC 2011
On 08/15/2011 03:56 PM, David Hopkins wrote:
> I would upgrade to 5.6. I just installed a system using CentOS6. It
> installs ok but there are a number of changes in how to administer the
> system. In my case, I noticed that simple GUI utilities like
> system-config-bind-gui and system-config-network are no longer
> supported. Also, yumex doesn't seem to work quite right (crashes). If
> you're ok with either letting Network manager automagically set things
> or enjoy manually configuring the network interfaces and the DNS zone
> info then 6 isn't so bad. However, RHEL/CentOS5 is supported till 2017
> (I think) which is quite long enough to build a test system to learn
> the in-and-outs of 6 before using it for production.
Important correction: CentOS5 has already ended full updates. All
updates, including maintenance, will end March 31st 2014.
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5
CentOS6 will reach EOL on 30 Nov 2017.
Jeff
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