Hello all,
Has anyone experienced upgrading from RHEL3 to Centos 4.2? Is it advisable? I'm running mostly native RH stuff, Apache Web server, Sendmail, Squid and IPTables gateway.
Will an upgrade work or should I start from scratch?
-- Scott
Scott Taylor wrote:
Hello all,
Has anyone experienced upgrading from RHEL3 to Centos 4.2? Is it advisable? I'm running mostly native RH stuff, Apache Web server, Sendmail, Squid and IPTables gateway.
Will an upgrade work or should I start from scratch?
-- Scott
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always with upgrades I prefer to upgrade from scratch when possible
Leonel
Scott Taylor spake the following on 1/31/2006 12:18 PM:
Hello all,
Has anyone experienced upgrading from RHEL3 to Centos 4.2? Is it advisable? I'm running mostly native RH stuff, Apache Web server, Sendmail, Squid and IPTables gateway.
Will an upgrade work or should I start from scratch?
-- Scott
It will "work", but it isn't the best ting to do for a stable system. It will leave behind a lot of old crap that will take up space, and be a pain to figure out what to remove. It is ok for a test system that you are going to wipe later, and you just want a quick and dirty test of the new OS and your apps. But it is better to start over, and have good backups. (Or a new machine, and leave the old one running until the migration is done). That is my plan as I replace 2 aging RedHat 9 servers I have running. The new hardware should be here in a week or two.
Scott Taylor wrote:
Has anyone experienced upgrading from RHEL3 to Centos 4.2?
Worked like a charm for me on one server, though clean install is always the best policy. Depends on how much existing content/customizations are on the box to make it prohibitively painful to go the clean-install route.
-- Rex
On Tue, January 31, 2006 12:53, Rex Dieter wrote:
Scott Taylor wrote:
Has anyone experienced upgrading from RHEL3 to Centos 4.2?
Worked like a charm for me on one server, though clean install is always the best policy. Depends on how much existing content/customizations are on the box to make it prohibitively painful to go the clean-install route.
Thanks, to all.
I normally would go the scratch way, I always do, but it's becoming a pain in the butt. If this simple, server, could be upgraded, that's $350USD less I have to pay RH this year. =P
I'm going to go with a clean install, over a restored backup and see how that goes first. Because if this works, I have other similar servers that could go this route.
Cheers for all your responses.
-- Scott
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