# Hello, Just joined and also a question on upgrade from centos8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [March 7, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548 "2022-03-07T15:16:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rnc412](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/rnc412/32/1790_2.png) [@rnc412](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/rnc412)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/1 "2022-03-07T15:16:10Z")
I am new to the forum and Rocky Linux. I want to say hello to everyone here. 🙂 I have had a long history with linux and got caught up with the centos8 situation like so many others. Well, I have a client still on centos8 and have looked over information on upgrading it to RL. I do have one question. Currently, This server has a dell H700 controller card. Will this be a problem when I do the upgrade from the script? Im trying to remember if I had to preload the driver but do not remember for sure. ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/2 "2022-03-07T16:46:49Z")
CentOS Linux 8 to Rocky Linux (8) is more a _sidegrade_ than upgrade; everything should be binary compatible. I can’t tell whether the migration script handles third-party repo (ELRepo?) for the driver packages neatly. ---
**Author:** ![rnc412](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/rnc412/32/1790_2.png) [@rnc412](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/rnc412)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/3 "2022-03-07T18:22:38Z")
Thank you for replying, Perhaps the move to rocky linux will handle the kernel change (I assume there will be a change here) just like any other kernel change and that since the H700 driver is kmod it will import it also. Im assuming though - I would love clarification on this. ---
**Author:** ![jackyjoy123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jackyjoy123](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jackyjoy123)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/4 "2022-03-08T11:45:49Z")
thanks for the awesome information. ---
**Author:** ![yuleba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/839c29/32.png) [@yuleba](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/yuleba)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/5 "2022-03-08T12:54:09Z")
My Dell r720xd h710 was transferred and there was no problem. php7.1 and PHP7. 4 and MYSQL and NGINX is installed on my server 。 ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/6 "2022-03-08T13:44:28Z")
I’ve never used the migration script. I’ve got the impression that it replaces (remove centor-version, install rocky-version) some core packages like the repo definitions and then runs `dnf distro-sync`. **man dnf writes about distro-sync:** > As necessary upgrades, downgrades or keeps installed packages to match the latest version available from any enabled repository. If the driver is from ELRepo, then nothing changes – _“keeps installed packages”_. ---
**Author:** ![rnc412](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/rnc412/32/1790_2.png) [@rnc412](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/rnc412)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/7 "2022-03-08T15:37:52Z")
Thank you for all the replies. I fired up a VM of RL and noticed that the desktop environment is of the gnome3. I am really not a fan of that DE. So, I found documentation on changing it to mate and also XFCE. I tried XFCE but there are some things missing on XFCE that I have not researched yet. XFCE - I have not found how to make a shortcut to applications on the desktop. Display settings missing? After changing to XFCE desktop I lost my clipboard for cp and paste in the VM. Not sure what that is? So, I have not installed MATE DE yet. So, I can either remotely upgrade to RL or go onsite and totally install something else like Debian. Im not sure yet. EDITED: Mate not installed yet. ---
**Author:** ![rnc412](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/rnc412/32/1790_2.png) [@rnc412](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/rnc412)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/8 "2022-03-08T15:38:58Z")
That is good to know. I did make a driver usb for the H700 just in case I do decide to go RL instead of something else. ---
**Author:** ![rnc412](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/rnc412/32/1790_2.png) [@rnc412](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/rnc412)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/9 "2022-03-08T15:46:58Z")
OK. Right click on desktop for display settings in XFCE. ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/10 "2022-03-08T16:21:09Z")
> [@rnc412](#): > > I fired up a VM of RL and noticed that the desktop environment is of the gnome3. You sound surprised, like you hadn’t noticed that in CentOS? Rocky has Gnome 3, because RHEL 8 has Gnome 3. The CentOS Linux 8 that you have does have it too for exactly the same reason. CentOS 8 was and Rocky is based on RHEL 8 sources. A third-party repository, EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), provides some alternative desktop environments. Those packages are/were installed the same way into RHEL, CentOS, and Rocky. ---
**Author:** ![rnc412](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/rnc412/32/1790_2.png) [@rnc412](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/rnc412)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/11 "2022-03-08T17:51:10Z")
To be honest, I got used to other flavors offering other DE builds. Just thought maybe they might have done that also. Its no big deal as I installed XFCE in my VM. I have been thinking it over and have decided that I will just remote in and change things to RL and then load up the XFCE desktop. If things break - well, Ill work it out. Thanks for the reply. ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/hello-just-joined-and-also-a-question-on-upgrade-from-centos8/5548/12 "2023-08-25T03:54:06Z")