Adam wrote: >Upgrading is technically possible, but it's going to be much more painful >than just moving everything to a new, clean sles10 install.
I'm not so sure about that. I've been comtemplating that. That's basically how we had to get from sles8 31bit to sles9 64bit. If you've got a stack of vendor products, some of which use RPM and put their stuff in the rpm database and perhaps some others that put stuff in /opt/IBM/WebSphere as well as using rpm for parts of itself (gskit) and still others that do other odd things. Reinstalling and reconfiguring all of those can be a major PITA, especially if you have to involve other groups. Changing hostnames too involves untold amounts of paperwork here anyway. Certificates can be problematic as well. My thinking is that it is less work for all involved to simply clone it (to a backup copy) and go for the upgrade and then just have all those other groups check things out. You still have the clone as a fallback or a place from which to compare the differences. Someday, I'll have enough time to actually begin testing my theory :) Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES 9 (64-BIT) TO SLES 10 On May 19, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Steve Mitchell wrote: > I'm looking for a 'How To' to upgrade a SLES 9 64 bit guest to SLES 10 > SP1. > Perhaps the discussion I recall involved 32 bit SLES. At least thats > all I've been able to find thus far in the archive search. > Regardless, thats what I'm trying to understand before proceeding. Seriously, my advice is: don't. Use rpm -qa to figure out what needs to be on the guest, then build it afresh. Copy in the configuration you can from /etc, and move your data over separately. Upgrading is technically possible, but it's going to be much more painful than just moving everything to a new, clean sles10 install. Also, if you haven't moved it yet, sp2 is not very far off. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
