[Centos] Upgrading from RH8.0 - to do or not to do?????

[ssharma at revsharecorp.com (Ajay Sharma)]

Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Scott Heisler wrote:
> 
>> But is it a nightmare to upgrade as well?  I know that a fresh install
>> is a nightmare.
>>
 > What makes you say that?  I can install/configure a virgin rackmount
 > computer with the 4.0 DVD in under an hour.  What exactly are you
 > concerned about possibly tripping you up?

Most likely he doesn't want to have to reconfigure all the services that 
are running on the box.  Plus there's probably a ton of little tweaks 
that have been done over the years that need to be updated.

IMO, both ways suck.  One one hand a MAJOR update like RH8 -> Centos4 is 
going to upgrade just about every package in the system.  So you'll 
probably have to reconfigure everything anyway.  Then you'll be left 
with a bunch of RH8 cruft.

A clean install on the other hand will be pure CentOS4 and you get to 
configure everything without any old RH8 cruft.

--Ajay