Centos 6 to 7 Upgrade

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promise2k
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Centos 6 to 7 Upgrade

Post by promise2k » 2023/05/25 07:27:42

Hi All
is there a approved / recommended procedure to upgrade centos 6 to centos 7? i have tried 1 procedure i found via google and it broke my system. i couldn't mount my drives after the initial reboot after upgrade. luckily it was a VM.

please help if anyone knows.

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Re: Centos 6 to 7 Upgrade

Post by scottro » 2023/05/25 11:01:28

The only recommended way from 6 to 7 is to back up the data and do a fresh install. There were, I think, various upgrade tools, but they didn't work properly.
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Re: Centos 6 to 7 Upgrade

Post by jlehtone » 2023/05/25 14:58:15

The only supported way from A to B is to back up the data and do a fresh install.
Red Hat had tools that did work only on genuine RHEL, and not even on all installed systems.


To install el7 now is a bit late -- it will be dead in one year. Both el8 and el9 do exists.
If you want spiritual equivalent/successor of CentOS [67], then look at {AlmaLinux,Rocky Linux}[89]

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