in-place migrate from old Fedora to new CentOS?

[Gooberlx2]

For some reason, someone installed Fedora 7 on a production server for our lab (before I came here). For obvious reasons, I want to move away from that and get on to CentOS.

Is it possible to do an in-place migration from Fedora 7 (2007, so I gotta think even the latest CentOS has universally newer packages). Or are some underlying aspects of the operating systems too different?

I certainly can just blow away the Fedora install, install CentOS and reconfigure everything. But I was hoping it would be possible to achieve a satisfactory and stable migration.

 

[xSauronx]

is there any reason youd think migrating from fedora to centos is at all supported, or even possible?

what services do you have to configure? maybe you can just copy all the configs and use those depending on the packages...or at least use them for the sake of a base when you have to reconfigure the new stuff.

 

[Nothinman]

AFAIK upgrades even between Fedora versions are sketchy at best so I can't imagine switching distros like that would work out well.

I would just backup /etc, do the CentOS install and then copy back the config files that you need.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
is there any reason youd think migrating from fedora to centos is at all supported, or even possible?

Supported, no. Possible? Well, they're all born from the same place (Redhat) with similar operating philosophies. Fedora is just generally more cutting edge.

I have found some guides regarding older version migrations. Though I've also seen some posts claiming that packages even in Fedora 7 are newer than some packages in CentOS 5....not counting post-install updates.

what services do you have to configure? maybe you can just copy all the configs and use those depending on the packages...or at least use them for the sake of a base when you have to reconfigure the new stuff.

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I would just backup /etc, do the CentOS install and then copy back the config files that you need.

Yeah, I think that's what we're gonna do. Just finding any decent information about migrating is enough of a headache. I guess I was mostly interested if it was possible and if anyone has done it. I'll probably do it in a VM anyway, as an academic exercise.