Howdy.
I've got a RH 9 server that has a 60 gig hard drive in it. I'm gonna replace it with a 100 gig and install CentOS 4.4. Can I just copy the password files, home directories, config files, etc. or does it need to be done some other way?
Thanks
You can upgrade to centos 4.4 on the old drive or do a clean install of centos 4.4 and the migrate all files individually. For example, migrate only the users from /etc/passwd, from UID 500, etc.
You will find out that many servers have posible new config options, but no big changes.
You can also use: linux upgradeany in the cdrom prompt
HTH Oliver
Zyxian wrote:
Howdy.
I've got a RH 9 server that has a 60 gig hard drive in it. I'm gonna replace it with a 100 gig and install CentOS 4.4. Can I just copy the password files, home directories, config files, etc. or does it need to be done some other way?
Thanks
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Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
You can upgrade to centos 4.4 on the old drive or do a clean install of centos 4.4 and the migrate all files individually. For example, migrate only the users from /etc/passwd, from UID 500, etc.
You will find out that many servers have posible new config options, but no big changes.
You can also use: linux upgradeany in the cdrom prompt
Likely there will be orphaned packages; some are likely to have been dropped.
After the upgrade, "rpm -qa --last" | less will show you what didn't get upgraded.
Upgrade is what I intend to do to get a box from RHL 7.3 to Centos, probably 4. I will, of course, use another drive, and I will test on another system.
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Zyxian