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I am using CentOS 5.6 on my desktop and would like to upgrade to CentOS 6.0.

I tried changing the yum repos to point to CentOS 6 but no luck. How can I do the upgrade?

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CentOS forum moderators seem to indicate that the only "supported" way is to do a reinstall:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29670&forum=14

Re: centos 6: straight 'upgrade', or start-from-scratch new install?" "Yes, you're suspicions are correct - a new install in the only recommended/supported path."

However, this doesn't mean that the upgrade isn't possible, but it may be messy and will be unsupported.

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Thank you. As per the conversation in the thread I understand that its better to wait for a couple of weeks before I install CentOS 6. – Veerendra Mattaparthi Jul 11 '11 at 2:32
I believe this mirrors Red Hat's policy on upgrading between major versions. – PriceChild Jul 11 '11 at 8:35
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