> I recently installed apt-get on a 7.3 system that I use as a central > loghost. > I didn't want to lose any logging data so i decided to do an in place > upgrade. > I used apt-get to perform the upgrade. > I changed the source list to point to the 9.0 sources, and installed the > redhat 9 version rpm package. > This package indicates the current version you are running. > > I ran apt-get update and downloaded 120 megs of packages; approximatelly > 100 packages. > It downloaded and installed all the packages. > Then I installed the latest redhat 9 kernel. > I rebooted the system and it came up clean, detecting all my hardware and > my software raid configuration. > > Total downtime was 90 seconds for one reboot. > My system is currently running 9.0 and it was a seamless upgrade... > > --Luke I just upgraded a 7.3 system last Saturday but didn't have a quite so seamless experience. - This system has two nic cards. For some reason after the upgrade my routing tables came up with the internet gateway pointing to my internal lan. - I had to manually edit /etc/modules.conf to enable active ftp'ing from my internal lan. This wasn't necessary under 7.3. - I had several fonts paths that had become invalid (actually empty??) that I removed. - keytable reported an error in /var/log/messages that it couldn't load _iso15_. I had to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n to correct this. - I use sendmail with authentication. I had to modify /etc/mail/sendmail.mc with a dontblamesendmail directive to get it to work correctly. - I use MailScanner (a perl based application) to scan email for virus and spam. MailScanner was toasted due to perl changes made during the upgrade. I had to go back and install several perl packages and re-install MailScanner. These were all relatively minor items but did take time to find and fix. On the other hand there are significant differences between 7.3 and 9 so I did expect some burps. Gerry -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
