Upgrading CentOS 5 to Fedora 7
It can be argued that doing so is not the smartest thing ever, but I needed some new features available in Fedora 7 and not in CentOS 5, and I needed them on a remote server that I couldn’t just go to and re-install. So I figured both operating system are based on a previous version of Fedora (I think both are based on Fedora Core 6, but CentOS 5 may be based on Fedora Core 5), so it should be easy enough to upgrade from the older to the newer ?
Well, not really – but this is how to do it: