On a workstation there should be no problem, but on a server, you might
have to modify some configuration files, like rc.local, httpd.conf, and
re-import databases in mysql and postgresql.
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 22:14:21 -0500
> From: Jeanette Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] use 6.1 as live server
>
> 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,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > 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
> > >
> >
> >
>
