migrating to Rocky or Alma linux

[Joazz1]

Ok I haven't really worried about my Centos as my website was working fine.

I wanted to update from CENTOS5 (ok EOL was years ago) to Rocky or ALMA.

Was unable to move to Alma, probably CENTOS version not being able to. Does anyone have other suggestions?
And I see Rocky supports CENTOS8 migration only?
Or how can I move easily to another linux system?

Thanks

[Ilia Ross]

Or how can I move easily to another linux system?

I would suggest just spinning up a new Linode with Rocky 8, installing Virtualmin 7 using beta installer and taking it from there.

[Joazz1]

Its one problem after the other

chmod + virtualmin-install.sh
the bash virtualmin-install.sh
I get
Error: Failed to download utility function library. Cannot continue. Check your network connection and DNS settings.

I dont know what to put for resolv.conf no ifpg. Is this the issue?

[Ilia Ross]

I dont know what to put for resolv.conf no ifpg.

You shouldn't touch it on contemporary systems.

Is this Rocky linux?

Long story short - you need to setup a new instance (like Rocky 8 or Alma 9), run system packages upgrades by running dnf update .. and then you can go and install Virtualmin 7.

If you need help to configure your network, the right addressee would be is your ISP. However, I'm baffled as all contemporary cloud providers have working instances out of the box.

[Joazz1]

thanks for your help so far.

• What do you think clearOS or oracle?

• Can I migrate to an lower Fedora system and upgrade that instead?

• I tried euro Linux but it couldn't migrate because of my raid system... Not sure clearOS would work either.

Any other easier systems that could work? I think my yum is broken probably a dns problem blody again. Is there another way to run updates?

Bloody nightmare.

[Joazz1]

Also dnf command not found. Wonderful. Feel like I'm trying to migrate from IOS7 to 15...

:(

[Joazz1]

Do you have an tar.gz for the virtualmin beta install, or a zip I can download, dns issues arent helping...

[Ilia Ross]

What do you think clearOS or oracle?

Cannot say.

Can I migrate to an lower Fedora system and upgrade that instead?

You could. Beta version of Virtualmin 7 install.sh script supports it as Grade B system, with installing using an -e switch. Although, after setting up the repos you would have to (for now) manually edit /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo file and add exclude=jailkit line.

Bloody nightmare.

What is? Simply spin up Rocky Linux 8 or Fedora Server 36 and run mentioned install script. For Rocky it will all work out of the box, for Fedora you would need to exclude jailkit package, otherwise installer would fail.

If a new box isn't working after deployment, try another cloud provider. I personally like Linode.