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How to upgrade the centos 5.8 to centos 6X?

I am using centos 5.8 in xencenter , i need to upgrade to centos6.5.

i tried with yum update it will updated to centos 5.10 only,please any one help me.

Thanks,

Prasad

Solution

  • I am guessing that you are trying to update a virtual machine. If this is the case then you can try the following.

    1. Boot your CentOS 5.8 VM using the CentOS6 ISO
    2. On the initial screen press tab

    3. when the boot command appears, append upgradeany

      vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img upgradeany

    When you pass the language and devices selections and the system is done examining the storage, you will be prompted if you want to upgrade an existing installation and be shown a drop down list of versions that were found.