On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:47:22PM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 17:30, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I was just asked to install apache, ssh etc. on a red-hat 6.2 system. I > > I guess you mean a *new* version of apache, ssh etc. Otherwise you could > simply install the original RH-6.2 RPMS. >
If I could find them it would help ;-) I managed to find a cd lying around but there is no ssh or apache on it. Couldn't find a version for anything earlier then 7.2 on the net. > > Anyway, is it possible to upgrade it in place to red-hat 7/9/fc or to debian > > In place upgrade across several versions (e.g: RH-6.2 -> RH-8) is pretty > hopless. More so across distros. > I will do it across distros only if I need to do a clean install to save me the time of learning a new one. I guess that a clean install would be the smartest choice here. I am looking for the path of least resistance here, its not a job, just something I know how to do. > > or should I just make a clean install over it > > Yes. > > What you need to check is if they have important data or local applications > and evaluate them before moving (on a modern Linux of your choice). > E.g: do they have web-apps on the old apache version and would they run > with the new one (mod_perl, php versions etc.). > There is a cgi (written in perl) from around 99 they want to use, I am not sure about the various dependencies, but does use perl 5 so I hope 5.8 will work just as well. Its supposed to handle paper submissions for a conference. I guess if there is another solution that works they will be ok with it since I don't think much work was done apart then downloading the code. I know it does need msql but they said they have a version that came with the code though. > > ok, but why does boot need 1.5 GB ?) > > No need of course, maybe the previous admin (5 years ago) toggled by > mistake the "grow" option in the partitioning dialog and thus gave the > rest of the disk to this partition (after specifying the other partitions as > fixed size). > > 100Mb should be more than enough for many kernels + their initrd and > symtabs. > Probably 20 MB, and I tend to just put boot with root nowadays that bioses can boot it (Hoping that computer is still new enough so that it can boot such partitions. I believe 1.5GB is above the threshold anyway for bad bioses so there is a chance). I guess this last one was a rhetorical question, no idea what the original installer was thinking here (probably though at the time that no one would want more the 2.5 GB for root and didn't know what to do with the rest of the free space). > Search the archive for a thread about partitioning practices (~1 month > ago?) I guess I am rather locked into the partition scheme if I don't want to kill /home ;-) > > -- > Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > > linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
