Benny Pedersen wrote:
the same was a fault from redhat to say we don't like to support older redhat
relases, since we now need to donwload a iso file again to upgrade what could
have being done from up2date ?
You might find the following useful:
HOWTO: yum upgrade to CentOS 4.0
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=654&forum=27
CentOS 4 is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise 4, and as such is as current
and will remain supported as long as RHEL 4. (Basically they grab the
source RPMs, which are available per GPL and similar licenses, strip out
anything they aren't allowed to redistribute, and rename it.)
You can grab a copy of yum and the appropriate config, then upgrade the
system live.
I've upgraded two systems this way from Red Hat 9 to CentOS 3 (which is
based on RHEL 3). Version 3 is a bit older, but it's still supported
and will continue to be supported for several years, unlike Red Hat 9,
which lost official support two years ago and will likely lose the
unofficial support from Fedora Legacy within the next 6 months to a year.
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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
