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[Miskell, Craig]

> While we're kindof on the subject here - one thing I don't 
> really recall 
> ever seeing is upgreade guides for mammoth overhauls, from 
> say RH7.3 to 
> FC1 - if that's even possible.
It's possible to go from RH7.3 to FC3.  A kickstart file with the
"upgrade" option worked a treat here, although the servers were
relatively trivial with nothing much non-standard installed.  Had a few
problems (perl version jumped from 5.6 to 5.8 which messed up some
custom libraries) but a recompile and tweak here and there fixed those.
So I suppose it wasn't hassle free, but it wasn't more than an hours
additional work in my case.  I did this on 3 servers, and bumped another
6 from RH8.0 to FC3.  Not to say I wasn't apprehensive before doing it,
but I was pleasantly surprised afterwards ;-)

Craig
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