Re: [K12OSN] What risk is there in moving my school k12ltsp from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0 pre1?

["Martin Stevens" <stevens chace enfield sch uk>]

Grr, just as get pre1 installed :-) , although I am having a couple of
problems with the LDAP Samba stuff,
but working through that at the moment.

What are the updates/changes ? do you keep a changelog.

I should be rolling this out very soon.

I just tested a EPIA 5000 Thin Client, and excuse me but how easy can
installing workstations get, no more installing from CD rom's on workstation
or security updates on workstations, oh yer baby I'm in heaven.


Martin Stevens
Network Manager
Chace Community School
Website : http://www.chace.enfield.sch.uk e-mail :
stevens chace enfield sch uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Harrison" <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>
To: <k12osn redhat com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] What risk is there in moving my school k12ltsp from
3.0.1 to 3.1.0 pre1?


> 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
>
>
>
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