[CentOS] update from 4.8 to 5.4?

2010-06-04 Thread Robert Tate
I have searched the list, and don't see this covered or didn't search for the right words. I'm running CentOS 4.8 and have some DVD's for 5.4. I have a lot of customized and additional software installed and would like to avoid starting over with a scratch install. After the upgrade from the

Re: [CentOS] update from 4.8 to 5.4?

2010-06-04 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:16:05 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I have searched the list, and don't see this covered or didn't search for the right words. I'm running CentOS 4.8 and have some DVD's for 5.4. I have a lot of customized and additional software installed

Re: [CentOS] update from 4.8 to 5.4?

2010-06-04 Thread m . roth
Bob wrote: At Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:16:05 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: snip I'm running CentOS 4.8 and have some DVD's for 5.4. I have a lot of customized and additional software installed and would like to avoid starting over with a scratch install. After the upgrade from

Re: [CentOS] update from 4.8 to 5.4?

2010-06-04 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:33:05PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: It is officially (according to RH, AFAIK) NOT recommended to go up a full release by update. Subreleases are fine, but you want a clean install for a new release (that is, 4.x to 5.x). Ah, so that's still the RH way! That's why

Re: [CentOS] update from 4.8 to 5.4?

2010-06-04 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 16:49 -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:33:05PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: It is officially (according to RH, AFAIK) NOT recommended to go up a full release by update. Subreleases are fine, but you want a clean install for a new release (that