Upgrade vs Reinstall
Sean O Sullivan
seanos at netsoc.itcarlow.ie
Tue Apr 12 13:04:49 UTC 2005
Tim Holmes wrote:
>Good Morning All!!!
>
>As we look toward the end of the academic year, I am beginning the
>process of planning the IT projects for the summer. One of the major
>projects that I have in mind is to convert all of our FC2 boxes to FC3
>-- I have about 6 FC2 servers in various roles around the school. What
>I am wondering is if there is a proper upgrade path, or if it is better
>to back up the data and start over from scratch?
>
>If a RELIABLE upgrade path is available, can someone please point me to
>the docs etc (since this would be the first Linux upgrade that I have
>done, a step by step cook book style doc would be real helpful)
>
>
>
I did similar upgrade from FC2 => 3, on various servers, it was a case
of inserting FC3 cd, booting off cd, and then when anaconda loads gives
you choice to upgrade.
It took about 1-1.5 hours to do it, and afterwards all worked without
problems, there is small issue with apache I believe, but once you
update via your package manager it should be resolved.
Regards,
Sean
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