[Centos] Upgrading FC2 -> Centos4RC1 (possible, but messy)

[mbest at pendragon.org (Michael Best)]

Matt Bottrell wrote:
> I'm constantly surprised how many people wish to 'upgrade'.
> 
> Historically I've been updating my Linux distro when Redhat still was
> shipped in nappies.  I've learnt pretty early on the following:

I had the option.

I have backups, separate partitions, all that fun stuff.

Mostly, it was more of an informative upgrade.

I certainly wouldn't suggest that people do this on a server, but this 
was on a desktop.  I wanted to show that it was possible, and that it 
was/wasn't a good idea, however, there are all types out there and 
someone might want to try it.

Just my experience with it, if someone finds it useful, great.  If not, 
well at least I got an upgraded desktop out of it.

Also at the end of it I ended up with 79 "fc2" packages, everything from 
  desktop style things like mozilla-acroread to things like syslinux, 
tzdata, system-config-samba, libraries, etc.

  -Mike