Transition from CentOS to Rocky

I successfully migrated a Centos 8.4 Stream system to Centos 8.4 system, then to a Rocky 8.4 system.

From memory, the steps were as follows:

Convert Centos stream to Centos

sudo dnf remove centos-release-stream

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-linux-release-8.4-1.2105.el8.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-linux-repos-8-2.el8.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm -e --nodeps centos-stream-release centos-stream-repos

sudo rpm -ivh centos-linux-release-8.4-1.2105.el8.noarch.rpm centos-linux-repos-8-2.el8.noarch.rpm

sudo dnf distro-sync --allowerasing

sudo reboot

Remove old repos

e.g. sudo rm yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-ContinuousRelease.repo etc etc

Then run the migrate to Rocky

e.g. sudo ./migrate2rocky.sh -V

sudo reboot