Grant Edwards ha scritto: > On 2009-03-10, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> Douglas J Hunley wrote: >>> Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it >>> a >>> quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make >>> it >>> work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx >> If it were me, I would save the world file, /rtc and /home and >> just reinstall. There are several updates that would be >> pretty extensive and tedious to say it lightly. I think in >> the long run, a reinstall would be much faster and easier. >> >> Giving a little more thought, maybe you should not even save much of >> /etc either. The make.conf file may be OK but I suspect there are huge >> changes to everything else too. > > Save the old /etc somewhere. You might not be able to use most > of the files as is, but there are a lot of little pieces of > information in them that you'll need. Cutting/pasting them > into the new install is way easier than figuring everything out > again from scratch. >
I would also save the kernel config, for the very same reasons (It won't work by itself, but it will be useful nonetheless). m.
