[TriLUG] upgrade or reinstall?

Vestal, Roy L. rvestal at rti.org
Thu Aug 8 08:30:08 EDT 2002


+1 going from 7.1 to 7.2 then to 7.3 over a few months.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Sonney [mailto:alchemist at darkcanvas.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:57 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] upgrade or reinstall?


On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 22:50, Mike Broome wrote:
> Anybody have thoughts or opinions on upgrading versus reinstalling to
> get from RH 7.to RH 7.3?  Are there pitfalls of upgrading in place that
> I should be aware of?  Should I expect it to just work flawlessly?

I've had no problem upgrading to 7.3 in any of the scenarios I've tried.
It should go smoothly, although I'd backup any critical configs/data
(like, $HOME) before attempting, just in case. 

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