almalinux-deploy VS raspberry-pi

Running another 8.x? Move to AlmaLinux using almalinux-deploy.

I mention that because you had to be at CentOS 8 latest, and since CentOS is now a stinkin pile of nothingness, there are adjustments path wise to point at Alma's capture of that in order to prep to make the jump. I think all that is documented here: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy

You can also convert an Oracle Cloud to Alma or Rocky then install ApisCP. If you do, append -s has_low_memory=1 to the installer.

If going with Oracle Linux it's necessary to convert to Alma or Rocky before installing the 30-day trial. This also doubles as a great hack for a free 1 GB DNS-only server.

Just follow those steps to migrate centos to almalinux: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy

I understand from here that it is recommended to update to CentOS 8.5. I have carefully inspected the recommended approaches from the README and this issue and attempted to cobble together something that I believe should work but I am facing some issues.

I used the Almalinux deploy script to switch to Alma.

A version of our Open Source hosting control panel (BlueOnyx 5210R) was initially shipped with CentOS 8 as base OS before we switched the installation media to AlmaLinux. Those that were still running CentOS 8 were informed via the GUI to convert to AlmaLinux by running the AlmaLinux conversion script that we had bundled with an update or ours.

Thanks for the questions. We already have several migration options. If you're currently on CentOS 8 or any other EL8 you can use this: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy. If you are on CentOS 7.x you can use our ELevate project: https://almalinux.org/elevate.

Then copy and edit the AlmaLinux-9-RaspberryPi-console.aarch64.ks file from GitHub https://github.com/AlmaLinux/raspberry-pi/blob/master/AlmaLinux-9-RaspberryPi-console.aarch64.ks.

Relatedly, Alma 8 has a RPI release based on Pablo's work. See here: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/raspberry-pi/

Grab a copy pop it on your Pi and if you have any questions, would like to discuss anything or contribute, join us on the AlmaLinux Community Chat the Forums and Reddit.

We've been pretty busy this year, we've put out 3 releases, 8.3, 8.4 and the latest being 8.5 just last week 2 days after RHEL. We have cloud images on AWS, Azure, GCP and a host of other cloud providers, provide several cloud and container images (we have almost 400K docker pulls!!), Live Images and a Raspberry PI Image. We also released Project ELevate which is an in-place upgrade tool for major version migrations of EL family distributions, which was a HIGHLY request feature for a very long time. We also have a CIS Security Benchmark which was published a few weeks ago. More than anything else though, we are a friendly, open and welcoming community with a diverse set of people from around the world.

The Raspberry Pi image is also updated to the newest version.

GH Repo with Tutorial: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/raspberry-pi/