Being a newcomer to Redhat 5.0 and only having had previous painful
experience upgrading Windows NT versions, I'm curious if anyone can describe
or point me to information regarding the "typical" sequence of steps one
takes to upgrade Redhat from one version to another?
The tiny bit of experience I've had considering upgrading the kernel
indicates that there can be a significant ripple effect between upgrading
the kernel, which requires upgrades to modules, which in turn require
upgrade of some packages, which in turn require upgrade of other packages,
etc.
I'm particularly interested in how one goes about upgrading either the
kernel or the entire redhat release (say from 5.0 to 5.1) while minimizing
the impact on the current configuration of the machine. For example, when
you do an upgrade, what happens to existing configuration files (such as
those under /etc) and how can you restore proper operation of your machine
using the previous configuration, but with the upgraded OS or kernel in
place?
(Please excuse me if this is a stupid question--I've been badly burnt on
this in the Win95/NT world so am a bit shell-shocked about upgrades now. I
want to pick up a change to the smbfs which is part of kernel 2.1.* and
redhat 5.1, but want to do so while minimizing negative impact on the work
I've put into configuration to date.)
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