[wplug] RH 7.3 upgrade

[Jim LaSalle]

It's a production machine. Lots of users, lots of files in /home. No 
office tools, minimal X. Mostly administered remotely via ssh.  I 
thought moving to rh 7.3 was less risky in terms of breaking scripts and 
bread-and-butter services (openSSH, dhcp, etc).  I worry about what will 
happen to user accounts/passwords with upgrades. Samba is compiled from 
source so it may need to be recompiled.

I have Fedora running on our archives server. What happens to Fedora 
when Red Hat decides it is not getting the revenue it expected from 
their "enterprise" distro?  I was seriously evaluating Debian and 
Slackware as replacements to our Red Hat farm when Fedora Core 1 was 
released. At this point in time, I think all new installations will be 
Fedora -- mostly due to learning curve/inertia on my  part.  :-\



Vanco, Don wrote:

>Backup anything importnant,  Insert the first disk, boot from it.  type
>"linux upgrade" at the boot prompt.
> 
>Any reason you don't want to use anything more current?  7.3 is certainly
>stable, but shoehorning in current versions of many apps (X, office tools,
>etc) will be a major PITA.  If it's a desktop system I'd consider a clean
>install of Fedora.
> 
>Don
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>From: wplug-admin at wplug.org on behalf of Jim LaSalle 
>Sent: Sat 12/13/2003 10:09 PM 
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>Subject: [wplug] RH 7.3 upgrade
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>What is the safest way to upgrade from Red Hat 7.1 to Red Hat 7.3?
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