Christopher Juckins

Support Lifecycle

http://lampblogs.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-centos-8-to-centos-stream

https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/

Converting from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream:

root@centos-linux# dnf install centos-release-stream

root@centos-linux# dnf --allowerasing distro-sync

root@centos-stream# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Stream release 8

Other Notes

9 September 2021

Fix slow dnf updates

Add these 2 lines to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

fastestmirror=1
max_parallel_downloads=8

5 April 2021

Migrated VM #1 and it had to remove the following:

ImageMagick-c++-devel 
ImageMagick-devel
OpenEXR-devel
ilmbase-devel 
libgs-devel  
libreoffice-sdk 

VM #2 also removed the following:

NetworkManager-libnm-devel

New install notes

• Copy contents of dnf installer bash script (CentOS 8 Stream) to a .bash script and test
• When installing a new VM, disable selinux