Thanks Jack, I already have the filesystems broken appart, I'll give it yet another College Try. I've never gotten this to work, from version 6.0 to date. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised!
Jack Coates wrote: > 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 -- 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
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