Michael Thon spake the following on 1/24/2006 11:31 AM:
> greetings - I'm trying to upgrade a centos 3.6 box to version 4. I
> tried to do an upgrade using yum but that failed and now the Cd
> installer is not letting me upgrade either. Here's what I did:
>
> following the howto, I tried to do the upgrade using yum. I installed
> the GPG key and upgraded the centos-release and the centos-yumconf
> packages. When I tried to upgrade yum package I ran into dependency
> problems.
>
> I downloaded and reinstalled the version 3.6 centos-release rpm. Then I
> downloaded and burned the CDs.
>
> I boot from the CD but I don't see an option to upgrade. I get to the
> installer screen that asks for the type of installation (desktop,
> server, workstation etc) but I see no option to perform an upgrade. Is
> the upgrade option hidden somewhere? did the installer not detect my
> centos 3.6 system? When I tried the yum upgrade, did I do something to
> make the installer think I have centos 4 installed (like the GPG key)?
>
> Any help is appreciated!
> cheers
> Mike
Use the option --upgradeany when you boot from the install cd
IE... linux --upgradeany
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