On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 09:24, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > >>How is the path from 9.0 to 9.1? Is it just a matter of selecting upgrade > >>and letting it do it's thing? Has anyone verified this? (I remeber when > >>redhat said you could do this, 4 server reinstalls later). > > > > > > supposedly one inserts the new CD and selects LiveUpdate. YMMV. > > And then spend the best part of a weekend fixing the breakage (if you > manage to). > > Bye
Actually I've had luck with it since about 8.1... in fact I upgraded a 7.2 box to 9.0 straight out. Problems are. 1. If you have modified many of your config files you'll find .rpmnew extensions all over the place. Best way to find them is to update the locate dbase and do locate rpmnew. 2. Live-update is way to slow... boot and do upgrade ... still slow but a factor of 5 faster than liveupdate. (it errors too much on the side of caution.) 3. If you did it from source (not source rpms) things in these areas might get mucked. RPM doesn't know from tarballs. 4. Fastest way is to still do an install keeping your partitions and /home. (shear time factor.) James
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