Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
>
> Have upgraded around 50 customers to 6.1 and everything is stable. Only
> had a slight problem with the IP aliasing in Linuxconf, but that's really
> minor.
>
> Go for 6.1. It's a 10 minute upgrade, then you forget about it. =)
>
10 minutes, well in most case I guess .. but I just had a 10 hours
shutdown because of a upgrade that did not work .. something about glib
version conflict.
I personally prefer clean installs over upgrades, that is if you want to
play safe and be sure that the next day your users come to work they
will have a working network.
Have two partitions on all your servers / and /home, copy all / to let
say /home/rootbk/. When you boot from the CD and it ask if you want to
upgrade or install .. click install.
After just bring back all you config from /home/roobk/etc into your your
new /etc files. Anyway it does require some work and notes from your old
installations .. but I was back and operational after 3 hours of work ..
that is after spending 8 hours trying to fix my first "upgrade" attempt.
Note I had successfully "upgrade" 3 machines before going for our main
server .. it could be because the main server had to many
customizations, but in my book I will never take the risk again .. clean
install is the only way to go.
After thinking about it I never saw any upgrades that did not bring a
share of instability .. windozes, SGIs & nextstations, even if I think
Linux is good ..it is not that good.
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Alain Terriault, SysAdmin
McGill University, Music
