[K12OSN] Retiring a K12LTSP server (back to just FC6 LAMP/Samba)

[Mike Oliveri]

I agree, a reinstall is your best bet. It's faster and safer.

You could, however, backup a lot of the config files in the /etc
directory to make life easier for yourself. Even if you don't restore
them directly to the new server, you would have them on-hand for
reference to see how things were configured before. This would be
especially helpful for Apache and Samba configs.

Take care,
Mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Martin Woolley
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:12 AM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Retiring a K12LTSP server (back to just FC6
LAMP/Samba)

On Wednesday 25 Oct 2006 07:34, Carl Keil wrote:

> Can someone recommend a way to "convert" this thing back to straight 
> FC?  Can I "yum remove" certain things, disable certain repos and turn

> off a few services?  I would like to, at that point, be able to run 
> "yum upgrade" and get to pretty much stock FC6 without repo conflicts.

> It's at k12LTSP 4.2.2 right now.

I think a reinstall would be quicker.  By the time you've worked out
want you don't need on a web server (Openoffice, Graphics, Sound, Games,
Edutainment, LTSP, etc) and uninstalled it, and worked out what you do
need (Apache) and what you might need (Mod-Perl, Mod-Python, MySQL,
Postgresql, etc), I think that you could have reinstalled it from
scratch.

I recently re-installed our FC5 LAMP server in a couple of hours
(hardware replacement just like yours) and it is humming away nicely.  I
lost no sleep wondering if I'd forgotten something when it went live.  

--
Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
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