[rhn-users] upgrade question

[Benjamin Stewart]

If it was me I would grab all my config files (samba.conf) etc etc and 
put them somewhere safe (on sloppy disk or something). And nuke the 
system and start again.


BJS
Vortek, Eater Of Souls! wrote:

>Hello,
>I'm just wondering if there is a way to either simply upgrade to a new
>version, or run a system restore of sorts. please excuse the story, but
>it will help explain my question I think.
>I had a power outage yesterday, and when I finally was able to reboot, a
>lot of my system seemed to be corrupt, for an example, samba no longer
>accepts connections from windows XP computers on my network, and cron
>doesn't seem to be running properly.
>I'm currently running redhat 8.0, and I'm just wondering if there is a
>way I can pop my redhat 8 disks in to my cdrom drive, and do some form
>of system restore, or if I can simply pop redhat 9 disks in and upgrade
>to rh9 preserving all my configuration files, and home folders.
>Any help will be greatly appriciated, thanks.
>
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