Re: OS Future now that Fedora Legacy defunct

[Donald Tripp <dtripp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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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