centos spake the following on 8/21/2007 4:45 AM:
> Thanks every one for all your help,
>
> using VNC seems to be a good option for those who has no access to console
> and want to install Centos remotely, however just to test , I tried to
> upgrade
> Centos 4.5 to Centos 5, but it progressed almost to the end and then
> stoped with
> some error. nothing upgraded.
>
> I think I should first upgrade it locally and then start doing it remotely.
>
> fresh install will leave a lot of files from previous version, so it
> should not be considered
> at all.
>
> is there any log file that shows why upgrade failed ?
>
When doing an upgrade, you need to remove as much custom or added rpms as
possible. I remember old upgrades on redhat 7 would fail silently if you had
linuxconf installed.
Have a look at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide
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