Upgrade of Red Hat linux 4.5 to 5.2.

[Rohit khaladkar]

Great! This was useful.We'll go for a fresh install!
Thanks a lot for all the replies!!

Rohit Khaladkar

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:10 PM, FAUCONNIER Valery AWL-IT <
valery.fauconnier at atosorigin.com> wrote:

> I tried to Upgrade of Red Hat linux 4.4 to 5.2 a few weeks ago and it's not
> a good idea.
> You will spend a lot time to resolve problem.
> What I got : the modprob.conf was empty that's mean a lot of problem with
> modules you had with you previous release of redhat and packages were
> missing.
> Honestly, if you have a good backup of your data, a fresh install is the
> better way; That what I do now.
>
>
> valery
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rohit khaladkar
> Sent: Tuesday 14 October 2008 14:28
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Upgrade of Red Hat linux 4.5 to 5.2.
>
>
> Thanks Aaron! Just to confirm, fresh install on the current hardware is the
> best way to go . right..?
> Thanks!
> Rohit Khaladkar
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Aaron Bliss <abliss at brockport.edu> wrote:
>
> > Rohit,
> > You'll have to migrate to 5.2.  Either do a fresh install to new hardware
> > or
> > have a lot of faith in your backups and do a clean install on your
> current
> > hardware.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> > redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> > On Behalf Of Rohit khaladkar
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:58 AM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: Re: Upgrade of Red Hat linux 4.5 to 5.2.
> >
> > Thanks kenneth! But if have some customers already at 4.5 , can you let
> me
> > know how it should be done without loss of data.
> > Thanks!
> > Rohit Khaladkar
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Kenneth Holter
> > <kenneho.ndu at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > As far as I know it is not really a recommended approach upgrading from
> > one
> > > release to another. You might want to consider doing a full reinstall.
> > >
> > > On 10/14/08, Rohit khaladkar <rohit.khaladkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi!I have a server with Red Hat Linux 4.5 , and I need to update it
> > with
> > > > Red
> > > > Hat Linux 5.2. I would appreciate if someone can send me the
> procedure
> > > for
> > > > the upgradation of the Operating system.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > Rohit Khaladkar
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