Upgrade centos 5 to centos 5.5

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Anybody has upgraded centos 5 to centos 5.5 32 bits?

If so can you tell me what worked 4 U please?
 
your a webhost and telling this guy you can;t upgrade a kernel without reloading? wow
anyways it depends on what distro you are using on how you are able to upgrade kernel.
It IS prob better to reload the OS though honestly if its a major patch, too much can mess up when upgrading the kernel so hes only partly wrong.
 
zxenterprises said:
your a webhost and telling this guy you can;t upgrade a kernel without reloading? wow
anyways it depends on what distro you are using on how you are able to upgrade kernel.
It IS prob better to reload the OS though honestly if its a major patch, too much can mess up when upgrading the kernel so hes only partly wrong.
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rather than put me down give your other solution. I have been in web hosting business since 1999 and i was learned that reloading the OS is the only true way to change distros
 
There is guys that talk about first save configurations besides some other tricks over an existing os that honestly I think you got to manage ssh in the most advanced way ,like easyhostmedia I rather take it like something more definite like sex change ,final but after a good reload you can attempt doing something like this in case ur on built distro lackof,
iUpgrade to CentOS 5.9 from CentOS 5.8 (5.7, 5.6, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0)

Updated by JR on Jan 27, 2013 in CentOS, Install Guides, Linux, Server Guides, Servers | 11 comments
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This is quick guide, howto upgrade to CentOS 5.9 from CentOS 5.8 (5.7, 5.6, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0).
1. Change to root User

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2. Backup all important data

Backup /etc diretory
Backup important logs /var/log
Backup web server configs and sites
Dump MySQL databases
Dump PostgreSQL databases
Backup all what you need if something goes wrong

3. Check list of packages that are going to be updated

yum list updates

4. Upgrade with yum update

Official way to do upgrade:

yum update

Another way to do update is first clean all, second update glibc, yum, rpm and python packages and then update other packages like following:

yum clean all
yum update glibc* yum* rpm* python*
yum update

5. Reboot

reboot

6. Check CentOS 5.9 release info and Check your entire system

cat /etc/redhat-release
## Output ##
CentOS release 5.9 (Final)

Following needs redhat-lsb package

lsb_release -a
## Output ##
LSB Version: :core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description: CentOS release 5.9 (Final)
Release: 5.9
Codename: Final

Check that your system is working normally and test every services.stros lack of,
 
Centos 5 to 5.5 is only a yum update, assuming the original in 32bit, the OP doesn't state whether it's 32 or 64.

32 - yum update

64 - a rebuild
 
Centos 6 is really, but centos 5 is pretty stable, it depends on what your going to be using it for, some features are removed in centos 6 that was in centos 5 but you can add them back with custom repos from the rpm -i url command.
 
OS reload!?! Woa.

Incremental updates: example 5.5->5.6
Just do a yum update and reboot. Easy.

I've been using 6.X since it was released, never had an issue.

...Old thread. 6.5 is out now! LOL
 
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