| acidjazz | biff; all i found was a link to that wiki |
| Biff` | Well, the release notes at one point contained the instructions. |
| acidjazz | http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-April/013660.html Online Upgrade from CentOS-4/Final remove as muhc as you can backup everything disable all repositories init 3 shutodwn all services install centos-release-5.x run a yum upgrade how do you disable all repositories? |
| Evolution | acidjazz: use --disablerepo |
| acidjazz | yum --disbalerepo gotcha |
| Evolution | followed by the wildcard method of your choice. |
| acidjazz | STARDOTSTAR so for the centos-release-5.x http://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/centos/5.0/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-0.0.el5.centos.2.i386.rpm is that the file? i dont like how its a 19k file |
| deepsa | split? |
| acidjazz | the yum upgrade will force all 4.x rpms to upgrade to 5.x ? hmm has any1 in here personally migrated from 4 to 5 yet? |
| evil_steve | deepsa: mini-split |
| deepsa | okay |
| acidjazz | ok i made a more detailed list of 4 -> 5 1. remove as many packages as you can 2. yum --disable-repo=* 3. init 3 4. shutdown as many services as possible 5. wget http://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/centos/5.0/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5-0.0.el5.centos.2.i386.rpm 6. install the rpm, which will update yum configs 7. run a yum upgrade (not update) any general yum tutorial? i need to learn how to remove packages |
| Evolution | acidjazz: http://centos.org/docs/4/html/yum/ that good enough? :-P |
| acidjazz | i was hoping for just pictures |