Comments on: Yum Install CentOS-5 (Upgrade from CentOS 4.4 to CentOS 5)

By: msajid

msajid — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:02:12 +0000

Thanks of comments which saved me.

By: Eran

Eran — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:01:42 +0000

Terrible tutorial, don’t use it.

I used the ‘remove hal’ and it totally corrupted my system, beware!

By: The Elite Geek

The Elite Geek — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:22:20 +0000

CentOS is now up to version 5.2.

It’s easily assumed that upgrading from version 4.4 to 5.2 involves many changes – likely more than what was current when this was written.

By: suggestor

suggestor — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:32:07 +0000

I suggest you to update or remove this tutorial because it is not working anymore, some key-links in this tutorials are not working anymore … thank you

By: Move to the new VPS, Yummy | Refactor the Life

Move to the new VPS, Yummy | Refactor the Life — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:05:09 +0000

[...] sense to me: wipe off the disk, then reinstall the OS. The upgrade from CentOS 4 to CentOS is quite hair-rising, and I was scared off by the tech support. So I would stick to CentOS 4 right [...]

By: The Elite Geek

The Elite Geek — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:42:09 +0000

Obviously, don’t confirm removal if it wants to remove everything, this comes down to simply basic systems administration.

Watch what you are doing! You can reinstall yum by using rpm.

By: henry

henry — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:08:52 +0000

I happily ran “yum remove hal” and assured by your message I said OK to removing 207 packages… Unfortunately it seems this command has removed literally everything including yum! So “yum clean all” returns “/usr/bin/yum: No such file or directory”!!!!

I’m a little confused…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:56:16 +0000

Hi there!

Thanks for this nice tutorial. I tried to follow these steps to upgrade a CentOS 4.6 machine to 5.2 headless but it didn’t work out (too many dependency problems).
When I tried to `yum remove hal` it suggested to remove 207 additional packages which is not what I wanted.

Any ideas?