Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-02 Thread Alessandro Baggi
On 01/10/19 23:38, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct, 2019 at 13:57:19 -0400, MAILIST wrote: After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, AT Unix, VAX VMS; I have never observed an upgrade from one major version

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 01 Oct, 2019 at 13:57:19 -0400, MAILIST wrote: > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, > AT Unix, VAX VMS; I have never observed an upgrade from one major > version to the next to work. The last

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 01/10/2019 à 19:57, MAILIST a écrit : > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, > AT Unix, VAX VMS; I have never observed an upgrade from one major > version to the next to work. The last one I tried

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 01.10.2019 um 22:19 schrieb Valeri Galtsev : > > I routinely upgrade FreeBSD. Last time it was 11.3 to 12.0. Always smooth. > Maybe I'm just lucky... No, it works very well. But it’s designed with an eventual upgrade in mind. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2019-10-01 12:57, MAILIST wrote: Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing data. After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8,

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Bob Marcan
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:57:19 -0400 "MAILIST" wrote: > > Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related > > to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing > > data. > > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:32 PM Elliot wrote: > In my career, I've managed many Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS > systems, and I found that in-situ upgrading of Debian, Ubuntu, and > Fedora are usually easy and convenient. I'll concur in my experience. I've upgraded a number of Ubuntu

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Elliot
On 10/1/19 10:57 AM, MAILIST wrote: >> Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related >> to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing >> data. > > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 14:00, MAILIST wrote: > > > Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related > > to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing > > data. > > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread MAILIST
> Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related > to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing > data. After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, AT Unix, VAX

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread LAHAYE Olivier
Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing data. Sometimes you need to keep your configuration and want to avoid reconfiguring everything, and reimaging your computer keeping /home is not an

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread mark
KM via CentOS wrote: > I searched a bit to see if there is a way to upgrade from CentOS 7 > directly to CentOS 8.  I found RHEL instructions but not CentOS.   > Although they probably should be/would be similar, the instructions I > found enable a rhel repository to get the leap command, which I

[CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread KM via CentOS
I searched a bit to see if there is a way to upgrade from CentOS 7 directly to CentOS 8.  I found RHEL instructions but not CentOS.   Although they probably should be/would be similar, the instructions I found enable a rhel repository to get the leap command, which I can't seem to do in CentOS.