Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:27:08 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > What is the best way to install CentOS 6? > Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? > If so, how does this compare with a clean installation? The rule of thumb is to always to a fresh clean installation when upgrading f

Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread William Hooper
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > What is the best way to install CentOS 6? > Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? > If so, how does this compare with a clean installation? Historically the upstream vendor has not supported major version upgrades. It appears that

Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > What is the best way to install CentOS 6? DVDs you download and burn onto drives you've backed up onto (yet) other drives. > Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? Officially no, technically possible[1], considered unwise by many if not most system babys

[CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
What is the best way to install CentOS 6? Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? If so, how does this compare with a clean installation? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irel