[TriLUG] Moving to Red Hat Advanced

Janyne Kizer janyne_kizer at ncsu.edu
Wed Apr 14 10:45:15 EDT 2004


Well, our biggest issue is that we are running several types of 
terminals that boot from the server (and that 85 servers are remote). 
We do need to preserve quite a bit of stuff for the terminals but we 
should be able to move that to another partition and then back again. 
Thanks!

On 4/13/2004 9:48 PM, Smith, Brett wrote:
> For the most part I agree... No migration path.
> RHEL3 is pretty compat with Fedora and RH9 though. 
> I just tar'd the important stuff and did a klean install
> I don't remember even changing any configs....but then again YMMV
> I know I used a bunch of recompiled Fedora RPMS for Desktop stuff
> And the Server was staright forward. Clean Installs...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sinner from the Prairy [mailto:sinner at escomposlinux.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:50 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Moving to Red Hat Advanced
> 
> 
> On Tue April 13 2004 13:4513pm, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have any pointers on
>>migration from RH9 -> RHEL?
> 
> 
> AFAIK, there's no migration path.
> 
> If I am correct, the "official migration document" means: backup + 
> install from scratch + full config + recover backup'd archives.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner

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Janyne Kizer
Systems Programmer Administrator
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension Information Technology



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