Hi, > > Likewise, I agree with the proposal. Personally, I've upgraded any RH7.1 > > -> 7.2 machines through to 7.3. That process itself is fairly painless > > and 7.3 & 9 are the most supported legacy distros. > > > > As for RH8.. :) Why anyone would run it is beyond me and upgrading to > > RH9 is painless too (even remotely). :) I think that is just opinion, I have used 3 RH8 machines in production for years without dramas. I didn't like the 7 series and 9 didn't show me any major reason to upgrade. Most of my production servers are now Fedora Core 1 (going on FC2 as of last nights testing), with only 2 RH8 machines still residing in production which I'm migrating to FC1/2 as we speak. What did/do I use RH8 for? squid proxy caching, iptables (shoreline) firewall, Webmail, DNS, DHCP, Samba, portslave/freeradius, VOCP, mrtg, Spamassassin, Mailscanner, etc, the list goes on and on. It's stable and I've never had dramas with it. > I've personally got a Redhat 7.1 box and a Redhat 8 box both of > which I've considered upgrading, however I'm very skeptical about > doing it for fear of it stuffing up. (these boxen are in production!) > :) > > How well does the upgrade happen? does it keep config files and so forth? Personally I have never "upgraded" RH operating systems, I'm not comfortable with doing that on anything other than Debian. What I do when upgrading Red Hat is to go through a re-install process like: * install the upgraded environment on a test machine * test it * if ok, buy new drives * yank the drives that are in the old systems * put in new drives * mirror them * go through install procedure as performed on test * test * enter production Worst case, yank the new drives and put the old ones back in. That's a cheap upgrade process. You could buy a new server and go that route (I have done that also and it's fine) or (for even cheaper process) you could Ghost your old drives and re-install then Ghost back if things don't work. Michael. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
