Re: Upgrade

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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM,  <tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8.
>
> 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing
> all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything up, uninstall/reinstall
> things, etc. I am wondering whether there is some way to upgrade to Fedora
> from CentOS without just having to reinstall everything?
>
> - Done.


It's a bad idea to "upgrade" through major versions without doing a
full reinstall.  Also, going from Centos 4 to Fedora is very strange
as Fedora is not meant for servers.  You really should be using a
Server OS (Like CentOS 5) instead of Fedora.
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