RedHat has said if you do an upgrade do it via anaconda..a yum upgrade
WILL hose your box.
Ajay Sharma wrote:
> 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
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