[Centos] RHEL 4 => CentOS 4

[mej at caosity.org (Michael Jennings)]

On Monday, 17 January 2005, at 15:26:02 (+0100),
Michiel van Es wrote:

> But not all sysadmins have 1-2-3 access to their servers (esp. if it
> is a colocated box..)  So for those poor people there is no option
> to upgrade?

I recommend careful perusal of the following:

http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2004-December/000477.html
http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2004-December/000478.html

I successfully yum upgraded my laptop from CentOS 3.3 to CentOS 4
beta, so it can be done.  Just pray real hard your system doesn't
crash in the middle.

Michael

-- 
Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <mej@xxxxxxxxx>
n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it
  is."        -- Cato the Elder (from Plutarch's "Political Precepts")