"the usual 32-bits"?
Just an opinion, but if you're running 32-bit CentOS on 32-bit hardware,
you should stay with CentOS 5.6 for a while... it's scheduled to remain
under full support until March 2014, and extended support for 3 more
years after that. By that time, you should be upgraded to 64-bit
hardware (or at least more than 4GB of RAM).
Now I don't just say that because I'm some kind of "64-bit snob" -- but
because there is no supported upgrade from RHEL 5.x to 6 (just as there
was no supported upgrade from RHEL 3.x to 4, or 4.x to 5). [Note: the
jump from RHEL 3 to 4 was more significant than most because of the jump
from the 2.4 to 2.6 in kernel versions]. In a perusal of several Linux
and RedHat (as well as CentOS) user sites, I've seen numerous posts of
people trying the old "burn a DVD & install it as an upgrade" method,
only to find it just doesn't work.... probably because few things in
software (much less OS software) works "by accident" -- and RedHat never
had any intention of (and thus put no effort into) making an automatic
upgrade path from RHEL 5 (CentOS 5) to version 6.
So where does that leave you (and why should you stay with CentOS 5.6
for now)
1) Some 3rd party will likely come up with an upgrade methodology for
RHEL/CentOS 5 to 6 which will make your job relatively easy, or
2) You'll upgrade your hardware within the next 3 years, and upgrading
to CentOS 6 (or 7) will be a necessity anyways (if only to access more
than 4GB of RAM!)
Either way, if you try the upgrade now, it's gonna be time consuming and
painful -- and a process that will likely have to be repeated when you
want/need more than 4GB of RAM in the near future! So by holding off the
jump into CentOS 6 for a while you'll save yourself the pain of having
to do a complete re-build and data-copy more than once!
But there is an exception to my advise: If your hardware is already
64-bit and you're just not utilizing it, then I think you should rebuild
with CentOS 6 64-bit now & get it over with.
Just my opinion -- before you complain, remember how much you paid for it!
Dan
IT4SOHO
On 7/26/2011 7:04 AM, User Qmail wrote:
Have you tried on the usual 32 bits? I wish to upgrade my centos 5.6
to centos 6.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Natalio Gatti <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have just finished the installation of QT in a Centos 6 x64 box.
I just wanted to my installation notes. It is not intended to be a
Howto or a Step by Step instructions. Maybe they are usefull for
someone else:
_Centos 6 x64 Install Notes - Centos Minimal Installation_
Dependencies Notes:
* No installed: automake17 and compat-libgcc
* Package compat-libf2c replaced by compat-libf2c-34
* Package compat-libsdc++-33 replaced by compat-libstdc++-33
* Centos 6 does not include sendmail, instead it includes
postfix by default
* When postfix is removed, it also removes "crontabs" and "mrtg"
which I added later
* When postfix is removed, it does not remove the user "postfix"
with UID 89 which conflicts with vpopmail UID
Command executed:
* yum install make compat-libf2c-34 compat-libstdc++-33 aspell
* yum remove postfix
* userdel postfix
Perl Dependencies Notes:
* Install rpmforge manually:
o rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
o rpm -Uvh
http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
* Install qtp
* Run qtp-dependencies
* Install perl SPF package manually:
o yum install perl-Mail-SPF-Query
Make Symbolic Link becouse centos 6 change the default rpmbuild
directory
* ln -s /root/rpmbuild/ /usr/src/redhat
QmailToaster Installation Notes:
* Execute install script cnt5064-install-script.sh
<http://cnt5064-install-script.sh/>until installation of
"qmailadmin-toaster"
* Install mrtg and crontabs via yum
o yum install mrtg crontabs
* Continue with installation script
Salutti,
Natalio.
