Luke Kendall wrote: >AFAIK, no Linux distro is considered quite safe to upgrade from one >release to the next (e.g. from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 10.0, or FC 4 to FC 5). > >Wise people still routinely advise "Install the new system on a spare >partition, and switch over when it's properly installed and configured". > I've managed to upgrade my server at home from RH9 to FC1 then all the way up to FC4. Slightly painful but it probably would have been better if I used apt instead of yum with the earlier upgrades (there was some reason I used yum instead at the time, just can't remember exactly what that reason was). I should point out that the RH9 to FCx box is a fairly simple server (bind, sendmail, apache, samba, squid). I had openldap running on it as well, but that broke for me back at FC3 and I haven't bothered fixing it (wasn't critical).
And like lots of other people here, I've gone from ubuntu warty to breezy to dapper (the same hard drive has been upgraded in 3 different machines as well in one case). Debian-based distros are definitely alot *less* painful than trying to get FC/RH based distros upgraded between releases though. -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
