Re: upgrade question

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Horst wrote:

> >   
>
> Great, thanks you guys. Dumb question: this would be a destructive 
> "upgrade," right - meaning I would have to dump my data somewhere 
> temporarily, install CentOS, and then re-import my data into a brand new 
> filesystem/partition?  Sorry, this is probably super-basic...

Yes - this is why I always make /home and /srv be separate partitions. I 
change the apache root to somewhere in /srv

With /home and /srv as separate partitions - I always do destructive 
upgrades and start with a fresh clean /

Make sure to save the contents of /etc/sshd so you can restore your 
existing ssh keys if other people connect via ssh.