I would suggest if possible just download CentOS 7 iso.
if you ever need to reinstall, you will have the iso/DVD at hand and only apply the updates.
Or like myself, and probably others, continue using CentOS 6.x til
2020? Good luck. :-)
yum update will only update packages in the current version, not switch to a completely new version.
7 is structurally different enough, with systemd and so forth, that you will want to do a virgin fresh install.
Can’t locate it today, but I found info earlier that there would be a
6.5->7.0 upgrade path at some point in the future. Sounded pretty much like the old Fedora preupgrade + something like fedup.
i guess wiping out CentOS 6.5 to install CentOS 7 is needed.
5 thoughts on - Upgrade From 6.5 To 7
I would suggest if possible just download CentOS 7 iso.
if you ever need to reinstall, you will have the iso/DVD at hand and only apply the updates.
Or like myself, and probably others, continue using CentOS 6.x til
2020? Good luck. :-)
yum update will only update packages in the current version, not switch to a completely new version.
7 is structurally different enough, with systemd and so forth, that you will want to do a virgin fresh install.
Can’t locate it today, but I found info earlier that there would be a
6.5->7.0 upgrade path at some point in the future. Sounded pretty much like the old Fedora preupgrade + something like fedup.
i guess wiping out CentOS 6.5 to install CentOS 7 is needed.
There is. It’s not ready yet, and requires a fair amount of patch work. If someone would like to take on the challenge, details live here ->
http://lists.CentOS.org/pipermail/CentOS-devel/2014-July/011277.html