Les Mikesell wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to do an in-place
replacement of the operating system. I can install a second physical
hard drive, install Fedora 8 or CentOS 5 on that, and then start
migrating data from the FC 2 system to the new one over several days
time. I can use grub to switch between the two.
That can work with a certain amount of downtime while you install and
juggle things although it's a lot easier if you can build the
replacement on a different machine and swap it (or the drives) into
place when everything works with a final rsync of data at the last
minute. If you plan to keep this running for years without
reinstalling, Centos would be a better choice, since you can expect
'yum update' to supply security fixes for 7 years.
Using a separate machine might be possible, yes. You are suggesting the
that I rsync specific data directories to the new drive -- I've never
done that before, but there is a first time for everything.
Thanks!
Bob
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