I considered upgrading my workstation from CentOS 5.6 to SL 6.0, and
discovered that the only practical method was a partial fresh install.
As I keep many important directory trees on different partitions (for
reasons I can discuss under separate cover), I basically did a complete
copy of the system trees from which I would need to restore files.
/home is on a different partition, and thus the install did NOT clobber
it because I instructed the install process not to do so.
Note that I did NOT repartition the hard drives, nor did I change to any
other filesystems than those already on the partitions being clobbered
by the (partial) fresh install. There was a comment as I recall from
Connie Sieh as to which directory trees had to be a fresh install, and
those I did.
The result booted fine, and by restoring what I needed from the saved,
unclobbered copies, I had everything I needed. The only glitch I had
was the issue of polymorphism: I needed X86-64 as a base system, but I
also needed to run a number of IA-32 applications. My Centos 5.6 was
IA-32. I now seem to have solved the polymorphic issues for my the
instance of my particular workstation configuration.
Yasha Karant
On 07/29/2011 03:25 PM, Chris Tooley wrote:
Hello all,
Do you still need to upgrade with media to go from SL5 to SL6, or can I
do it from a CLI?
thanks,
-Chris
