<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rob,<div><br></div><div>I would make a solid backup of /home and /etc and do a clean install of Centos. I can't remember if there is any other place you want to backup - Stuart or someone else may be able to help here. Restoring /home takes care of getting your LON-CAPA information back into place.</div><div><br></div><div>If /home is on a separate volume, you can opt to not reformat this volume.</div><div><br></div><div>I went to Centos a few years ago from Fedora and have appreciated the longer lifecycle.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:48 AM, rob mock wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">We had been running Fedora Core 5 and updated to FC10 (thinking that was a good thing... oops).</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">The result is that we are currently offline.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Is there any special advice/instruction for converting from FC to centOS?</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">rob</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Mark Lucas<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>email: <a href="mailto:lucasm@ohiou.edu">lucasm@ohiou.edu</a><br>252D Clippinger Lab<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>phone: (740)597-2984<br>Department of Physics and Astronomy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>fax: (740)593-0433<br>Ohio University<br>Athens, OH 45701</div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>