Whats the 1% caution Jean-Michel, I want to upgrade my Venus 6 but I don't
want to reinstall all this since I just reinstalled everything 3 times in
the last few weeks.
Jeanette Russo,
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From: Jean-Michel Dault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] use 6.1 as live server
>
> I know the upgrade path is not always easy. Upgrading from Mandrake 5.3 to
> 6.0 was a total mess here. But from 6.0 to 6.1, I recommend it 99.9%.
>
> Jean-Michel Dault
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> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Alain Terriault wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:47:45 -0500
> > From: Alain Terriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] use 6.1 as live server
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ___________________________
> > Alain Terriault, SysAdmin
> > McGill University, Music
> >
>
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