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?
johnn