On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 06:11, Albert E. Whale wrote: > I am ready to upgrade my LM 8.2 with the New LM 9.0 Pro Suite. > > In the Past my attempts to perform a 'traditional' upgrade have always > ended in disaster. > > While I have the New Installation, and Patch the files with the correct > configuration information, process down cold by now, it would save a > Great Deal of Time running a true upgrade of the Server. > > Has this Process Matured enough to be trusted yet? >
Worked for me. Might work for you. The key is to backup /etc and /var, keep /home and /usr/local (or /opt if you swing that way) on their own partitions, and put everything that you install from source into /usr/local (or /opt if you swing that way). If you've accepted past default partition schemes, /usr might be a partition of its own containing /usr/local, in which case you back up /usr/local too. All backups should be done in a way that preserves ownership, man tar or look into rsync (works nicely on localhost too). Run the upgrade, make sure that /home and /usr/local don't get formatted, click okay on everything and create the minimum accounts. Boot with linux single and restore /etc/passwd*, group*, gshadow*, and shadow*, then step through the rest of /etc file by file and look for other stuff that needs to be restored or modified. Do the same with /var. Restore /usr/local (or /opt). telinit 3 or 5 per your preference and you should be good to go. > -- > Albert E. Whale - CISSP > http://www.abs-comptech.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer & Networking Specialists > Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant > Board of Directors - InfraGard - Pittsburgh, PA > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
