> I'm not worried about stability per se. I'm worried about the upgrade
> process screwing things up. I've heard that the upgrade process is not
> transparent, in the sense that packages get updated and the amount of
> tweaking to get the installation to the same configuration state is
> minimal.
Have you purchased a copy of RH? If so, I wouldn't worry. Your entitled
to 30 days install support. $50 is small change for the insurance it
provides.
> Using 2.1.x kernels is a calculated risk I've taken, particularly since I
> was not impressed with the SMP support in 2.0.x. Besides, the more people
> are testing SMP code, the better.
True, and understandable.
> I forgot to mention that I am limited by hard disk space.
> Unfortunately I can't afford the luxury of more hard drive space right
> now.
Well, I know how that is, but it is honestly a bit ironic. How much was
your SMP box? :) That's not an entry-level system, especially when
entry-level HDD cost like $129.
Incidentally, I was considering an SMP box, as the price has drastically
dropped. Do you find a noticable real-life improvement in performance?
> > - Download the 5.0 glibc libs from sunsite, and install them in an
> I've tried this, but I have not been successful so far. I will be trying
> this again. But RedHat claims that it is possible to upgrade 4.2 ->5.0.
Of course its possible to do the upgrade. And frankly, if your upgrading
_only_ from 4.2 to 5.0, and haven't done any serious modifications, I
really doubt you will have much trouble.
We're 5 months into this release, and I'm sure thousands of people have
done an upgrade. If you were talking about upgrading from a 2.0 release,
I might suspect there to be a problem or two. But 4.2 is well known, and
5.0 is quite established now.
> I've not heard encouraging things about the upgrade process. I know a
> clean install is almost flawless, but I am not willing to lose a working
> system. At the same time, I do want to upgrade. Hence I am asking
> whether the upgrade process will be improved in 5.1.
Yes, I'm sure people have had problems with the upgrade. I'm also sure
that we didn't see all the bug reports that were posted by registered
users, and the fixes RH made to their most recent install that fixes those
problems.
Yes, 5.1 I would imagine will have a better install/upgrade program.
If you have a backup device, copy your most important files to that first.
> Thanks for the response, Dave.
Sure.
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