That's why a VNC install is pretty neat. Also with any remote machines I ensure I have serial console access. ;)
Add those two features and life is pretty sweet.
I agree.... I'll do minor upgrades via yum... however major ones I always reinstall. :) ie: 3.3 -> 3.4 (yum) and 3.x -> 4.x (reinstall).
Cheers,
Matt.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:12:59 -0600, Aaron Havens havensa@nsuok.edu wrote:
Johnn Tan wrote:
Matt Bottrell wrote:
I'm constantly surprised how many people wish to 'upgrade'.
Historically I've been updating my Linux distro when Redhat still was shipped in nappies. I've learnt pretty early on the following:
[...]
- Choose to install fresh (not upgrade), and format the existing
partitions /, /usr, /tmp and /var.... whilst you probably wish to keep /usr/local and /home.
Matt: I agree with you, fresh installs are my preferred "upgrade" path.
But I was just curious what to do in a remote server situation? I manage about a dozen boxes remotely. They are running CentOS3.3 right now. When CentOS4 becomes final, I would like to upgrade. But not sure if there's a way to do it "fresh" since I'm not at the machines physically.
Along the same lines, does RedHat themselves have an official position about upgrades from RHEL3 to RHEL4?
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On my production systems I only do fresh installs when moving from something like RHEL 3 -> 4. Also I don't upgrade a machine unless I have to due to end of life or a requirement for a feature offered in the new version. The many years of support and security patches is what drew me to RHEL and CentOS on my servers.
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