Upgrading from CenOS-3 to Fedora Core 3(4?)

[Mireno]

Hi everyone,

My first post here, so I'd better introduce myself. I've been working with Linux for hardly a year, if you can call trying out all major distributions working that is. I have had experience using FC2/3, Mandrake 10, Debian, Ubuntu 4.10/5.04, Lindows 4.5, SuSE 9.1/9.3 and Gentoo. Finally settling for Gentoo on my home computer, I have been using it ever since.

Now, I got quite recently a VPS server with CentOS-3 installed. I want to run PHP5, MySQL 4.1 etc... on it, but of course CentOS-3 packages don't have that; so I wondering how to upgrade my distribution out of SSH console using Yum. I can't change the kernel, but I don't think that will pose a great problem.

So, how do I upgrade from CentOS-3 to Fedora Core 3 (and later 4 as soon as it released)?

Thanks for help

[jonest]

As far as I know, using the precompiled rpm files from Fedora Core will not upgrade a CentOS computer. The main issue is that CentOS is derived from RH Enterprise Server. I do not know about PHP5, but I upgraded using the rpm's from Mysql.com for 4.1 and it worked fine with the existing version of PHP as long as I got the compatibility libs. There may be a solution somewhere and I would google it, but you may need to compile PHP5 with mysql support to make it all work.