Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 02:56:24 PM Max Pyziur wrote: My hope is to upgrade; that way I don't have to change/specify partition topology, and hopefully only minimally adjust the existing configurations. I have tried this type of upgrade before; I have not had it go well for the most part.

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 02:56:24 PM Max Pyziur wrote: My hope is to upgrade; that way I don't have to change/specify partition topology, and hopefully only minimally adjust the existing configurations. I have tried this type

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: I recognize that most of the comments were from sysadmins, more involved in managing server farms, and steeped in that knowledge/experience base. And in upgrades, and thus have experience with the difference in effort and

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: I recognize that most of the comments were from sysadmins, more involved in managing server farms, and steeped in that knowledge/experience base. And in upgrades, and thus have

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Ross Walker wrote: On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: [... deleted for the sake of brevity ...] Much thanks to thoughtful comments and cautions, You might want to crawl /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr and /var for files not under management and

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: My personal goal was to preserve the topology of the disk layout, as well as the configurations. Which are trivial to reproduce. And potentially improve in the process. And you still have yet to explain what you think the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: My personal goal was to preserve the topology of the disk layout, as well as the configurations. Which are trivial to reproduce. And potentially improve in the process. It may be