On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:11:29AM +0100, P. Martinez wrote: > Am 18.01.2007 um 02:19 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: > > >If you are looking at one could attempt an upgrade from to then it > >would be that > > > >RHL-7.0, RHL-7.1, RHL-7.2 might be upgraded to RHEL-2.1 > >RHL-7.3, RHL-8, RHL-9 might be upgraded to RHEL-3 > >FCL-1, FCL-2, FCL-3 might be upgraded to RHEL-4 > >FCL-4, FCL-5, FCL-6 might be upgraded to RHEL-5 There could be individual circumstances but I "upgraded" two heavily hacked RHL-7.x machines to CentOS-4, which is from a software point of view really the same as RHEL-4, and this was a "non-event". True, it required some coaxing to start the whole process and a careful cleanup afterwards (both 'yum-utils' and 'rpm' are helpful in that) but other than that, which means an extra work, this was not a problem. If you did not dump everything into one big partition in the first place then installing over system parts, while keeping local data, and restoring a desired configuration afterwards could be simpler and quicker. Selectively restoring from backups also can be an option. Make no mistake - a machine in use for a while is likely "more customized" then it looks at the first glance so getting to an equivalent configuration on a new installation is usually quite a bit more work than you think. Still with a bit of planning you may end up ahead. > Till now, there is no decision about our current > OS-strategies. Thinking in terms what can be, apparently, "upgraded" to what is possibly not that great idea. Michal -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
