Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

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> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Cédric Chausson wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am interested in updating to RH9. I have two options :
>>
>> 	_ Doing a full install
>> 	_ Doing an update instal
>>
>> Up until now I have always used the full install option and not the
>> update possibility. But I have installed a lot of programs and
>> configured a lot of things so I'd like to loose as less as is
>> possible.
>>
>> So I was wondering is the update installation option really feasible.
>> I  seem to remmeber having seen written that it did not work really
>> good ?
>>
>> Comments, experiences ?
>
> Obviously no one outside of Red Hat can speak fron actual experience in
> updateing to 9. Having said that I can tell you that my experience
> upgrading from various versions to the latest and greatest version have
> for the most part been very successful. Based on my personal experience
> I have no problem doing upgrades.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> .............Tom	"Nothing would please me more than being able to
> tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx	hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market
> 			with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976
>
>    			We are still waiting ....

Well, I've had mixed results when upgrading.  Sometimes I've had strange
instabilities show up that I just couldn't find what was causing them. 
When that's happened I just backed up the entire mess on tape, did a fresh
install and restored key files from tape.

Gerry




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