Re: [K12OSN] What risk is there in moving my school k12ltsp from3.0.1 to 3.1.0 pre1?

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Jim Christiansen wrote:

>Hi Eric,
>
>Are there any major risks in upgrading my school k12ltsp from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0 
>pre1?

If I were a lawyer, I could crank out several hundred pages of things
that could go wrong ;-)

I just uploaded 3.1.0pre2...

	ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/k12ltsp/3.1.0pre/

>Sure, I'll have to back up my /home, /etc, /var/www, and /opt but can you 
>think of anything else that may cause an upgrade to go bad?  

I would recommend backing up everything.

>I assuming that 
>I can use the same IceWm menu configs 

Correct. The default theme has been changed from "win95-like" to "xp-like",
otherwise IceWM is the same.

>and logoff kill scripts, or did you 
>write that you have included them?

They are included.

>I have never done an upgrade before, I've always just re-installed...I guess 
>the worst thing that may happen is that I could lose my current users.

I've done a couple test upgrades and it worked ok. I often find that it is
quicker and easier to backup /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /home
and anything custom, and do a full re-install.

-Eric