Agreed. I'm glad you understand that either way sucks... And yes..
Minor tweaks all over... Performance tweaks on Samba and oh, I forgot to
mention... This server also runs Pervasive SQL for Linux... Which would
require a re-install as well... And who knows how many config tweaks
I'll have to make on that one.
I think I'm going to go hide somewhere and wait for someone else to do
the upgrade! (Like that will happen!)
Well.. In reality... I may just purchase a new server and do a
migration.. Easy to migrate the major shares... Move the user shares
when I get to it... And move the Pervasive database once everything else
is working. I'm sure I'll have to upgrade that sucker to a newer
version as well.. $$$$ but at least it runs great on Linux. Pervasive
on Windows is a major slug.
Scott Heisler
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ajay Sharma
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:29 PM
To: CentOS discussion and information list
Subject: Re: [Centos] Upgrading from RH8.0 - to do or not to do?????
Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Scott Heisler wrote:
>
>> But is it a nightmare to upgrade as well? I know that a fresh
>> install is a nightmare.
>>
> What makes you say that? I can install/configure a virgin rackmount
> computer with the 4.0 DVD in under an hour. What exactly are you >
concerned about possibly tripping you up?
Most likely he doesn't want to have to reconfigure all the services that
are running on the box. Plus there's probably a ton of little tweaks
that have been done over the years that need to be updated.
IMO, both ways suck. One one hand a MAJOR update like RH8 -> Centos4 is
going to upgrade just about every package in the system. So you'll
probably have to reconfigure everything anyway. Then you'll be left
with a bunch of RH8 cruft.
A clean install on the other hand will be pure CentOS4 and you get to
configure everything without any old RH8 cruft.
--Ajay
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