Just in case anyone else was interested in doing this I thought I'd let
you know how things went.
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Stephen Gava wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking of standardising several Linux machines on a lan by
> > installing Mandrake 6.0 on them.
>
> Good idea. ;)
>
> > but I was wondering, since Mandrake says it is 99.9% RedHat
> > compatible, whether I can upgrade the RedHat machines directly to
> > Mandrake 6.0?
>
> Shouldn't be a problem for the ones running 6.0 - the only disadvantage is
> you won't get any of the Mandrake specific packages if you run just an
> update.
> As for 5.2, well... It should work partially, but since some important
> stuff moved to different packages (xfs and such), you'll probably have to
> do some stuff manually.
>
> LLaP
> bero
Since we already had RedHat 6.0 I upgraded all the RedHat 5.2 machines
to RedHat 6.0 first (and had a few minor problems to clear up in the
process). The subsequent upgrade of all the RedHat 6.0 machines to
Mandrake 6.0 went very smoothly.
Even a fairly customised server machine upgraded without much more
trouble than the usual merging of changes from the .rpmsave'd prior
configuration files. There was one small problem with all partitions not
being properly unmounted at shutdown on this machine, but upgrading to
initscripts-4.16-24mdk seemed to fix that.
So, this crossgrade process worked pretty well, for me at least ;).
Congratulations on your excellent distribution, it's nice (for one
thing) to have i586 packages, straight from the distro, for my i586
machines. And I'm very pleased to see distro developers giving good
advice in your support lists too.
Regards,
Stephen Gava.
