changes are needed, we need keep moving

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting "Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <guallar at easternrad.com>:

> On Thursday 02 June 2005 22:11, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > In fact, I just upgraded some of my RH 7.3 machines to Centos, so I'll
> > have even fewer machines to test things on.  I'm sure others are doing
> > the same.
> 
> To what version of CentOS ?

Centos 3.5, via a "yum" package upgrade.  Not recommended unless you are
fearless.

> Were they servers or desktops?

Servers.  One a print server, the other a NFS server.

> Did you found any trouble?

The print server went without too much trouble.  Had to reconfigure the
web interface to cups, other than that it worked fine.

The NFS server had more problems, mostly NIS related.  But in the end it
seems to be working.

> Do you know of any upgrade-HOWTO url ?

There are lots on the net for going from RHL 9 to Centos 3.  They all 
basically apply to RHL 7.x and 8.x as well.  Just google.

> I'd like to upgrade my RHL 7.3 to CentOS for peace of mind.

Best way, not the way I did, is a fresh install.  If that isn't possible,
then the next best way is to do it from the cd-rom (at the boot
prompt, use the undocumented 'upgradeany' of something like that; see
google for details).  If that doesn't work for you, you can try the live
yum upgrade like I did, but it isn't really recommended, and yes you will
probably have problems here and there (I was surpised my print server had
no actual problems; I wasn't surprised the NFS server had lots of problems).

Whether or not it is a good idea depends on how loaded your system is.
The more packages, the less likely it is to work.  My print server has 
very few packages, so it worked.  My NFS server also has few packages, but
some things like NIS support seem to have changed over the years.

> Regards,
> Josep
> --
> Josep L. Guallar-Esteve		Eastern Radiologists, Inc.
> Systems and PACS Administration  http://www.easternrad.com

-- 
Eric Rostetter