On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:30:21PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I was just asked to install apache, ssh etc. on a red-hat 6.2 system. I
> started working on it, but it seems a real pain since it doesn't seem
> to be supported and compiling from source requires me to get quite a
> few packages to compile.
>
> Anyway, is it possible to upgrade it in place to red-hat 7/9/fc
My guess is that an automatic upgrade procedure will simply fail. A
number of possible issues:
rpm:
- make sure you upgrade to the latest version of rpm from 6.2's
updates. This version can use rpm4's database format. This can help
with an upgrade to RH7.1 and maybe 7.2 and 7.3
- if you upgrade to rh>=9 , the rpm package there has changed and is
no longer statically linked. The statically linked rpm will fail
with the new glibc. Fun.
glibc:
if upgrading to >= rh9, glibc changes. Even more than the usual
change. Many old binaries won't work. Some will work with
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 (or maybe ever 2.2.5 ?)
> or to
> debian (debating between them since I already know debian and I don't
> think anyone using the computer knows red-hat, the root password seems
> to have be unknown for about 5 years, had to use init=/bin/sh to delete
> it and make a new one ;-) or should I just make a clean install over it
> (I'm not really sure what would take more work).
What about the data?
>
> I am tending toward the upgrade since its was partitioned rather
> strangely with root at 2.5 GB, /boot 1.5 GB and /home at 18 GB (home is
> ok, but why does boot need 1.5 GB ?)
You can do a clean install . But first: is there any existing data
outside of /home ? Any simple way of backing it up and restoring?
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