Re: SUMMARY: RHEL 3->4: Upgrade or Fresh Install?

[Chuck Haines <chaines gmail com>]

We've done upgrades on five machines now that were running rhel3 and
had various services running from straight login servers to web
servers to samba servers, etc.  Redhat has made the upgrade very easy
and IMHO it works very well.  We've have no problems so far and we
will be performing upgrades on another 5 machines here soon.

Chuck

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:39:28 -0500 (EST), Tim Evans <tkevans tkevans com> wrote:
> Last week, I asked:
> 
> >RedHat's official install manual is kinda stern about recommending fresh
> >installs rather than upgrading RHEL Version 3 to Version 4.
> >
> >What has been the list's experience?
> 
> Thanks to:
> 
> dsavage peaknet net
> Tom Sightler <ttsig tuxyturvy com>
> Marcus White <1midniterider comcast net>
> 
> Tom and Marcus reported no problems with several upgrade installs, while Doc
> warns:
> 
> >Given the major changes between RHEL3 and RHEL4 -- the 2.4->2.6 kernel, a
> >totally rewritten SCSI subsystem with all new drivers, SELinux (!),
> >support for >1T filesystems, yada yada yada -- there are just too many
> >possible ways to for an upgrade to fail, both obvious and hidden.
> 
> As my own system is pretty basic, with no SCSI, exotic devices, or very large
> filesytems, and no third party applications, I decided to go with an upgrade
> install.  It went fine, with no incidents. I've been running version 4 now since
> the weekend.
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