[K12OSN] Need advice on recovering from failed boot disk

[Jeff Siddall]

On 08/15/2011 03:56 PM, David Hopkins wrote:
> I would upgrade to 5.6. I just installed a system using CentOS6. It
> installs ok but there are a number of changes in how to administer the
> system. In my case, I noticed that simple GUI utilities like
> system-config-bind-gui and system-config-network are no longer
> supported. Also, yumex doesn't seem to work quite right (crashes).  If
> you're ok with either letting Network manager automagically set things
> or enjoy manually configuring the network interfaces and the DNS zone
> info then 6 isn't so bad. However, RHEL/CentOS5 is supported till 2017
> (I think) which is quite long enough to build a test system to learn
> the in-and-outs of 6 before using it for production.

Important correction: CentOS5 has already ended full updates.  All 
updates, including maintenance, will end March 31st 2014.

http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5

CentOS6 will reach EOL on 30 Nov 2017.

Jeff