[rhn-users] upgrade question

jarrod jnachaski at comcast.net
Wed Mar 31 01:49:10 UTC 2004


I believe at install time there is an option UPGRADE, for those users that
are upgrading from an older to a newer distro. That is my 2cents.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <branchjonbranch at netscape.net>
To: "Red Hat Network Users List" <rhn-users at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 7:14 PM
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] upgrade question


> Hi
>
> If you want to restore your system to the same version of Red Hat Linux
then you should first back up copies of the following;-
>
> /etc/passwd
> /etc/shadow
> /etc/group
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/samba/smb.conf
> /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> /etc/samba/smb.users
>
> as a minimum.
>
> If you have other services configured (such as dhcp for example) you can
also back up the configuration files for them also.
>
> You can also back up the entire /home directory.
>
> When you have re-installed from scratch it works best to open the
smbpasswd, passwd and shadow files in a text editor like gedit and copy and
paste the additional account information into the new files the install
created.
>
> For user accounts you will probably need to manually set the ownership for
each one as you restore accounts. This is a pain in the neck if you have a
few hundred users but doesn´t take a horrendous time if you use the command
line:-
>
> chown -vR username /home/username
>
> If you run and upgrade, to Red Hat 9 this will probably restore
everything. Its worth a try.
>
> Regards
>
> Jon Branch
>
> "Vortek, Eater Of Souls!" <vortek at the-bofh.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I'm just wondering if there is a way to either simply upgrade to a new
> >version, or run a system restore of sorts. please excuse the story, but
> >it will help explain my question I think.
> >I had a power outage yesterday, and when I finally was able to reboot, a
> >lot of my system seemed to be corrupt, for an example, samba no longer
> >accepts connections from windows XP computers on my network, and cron
> >doesn't seem to be running properly.
> >I'm currently running redhat 8.0, and I'm just wondering if there is a
> >way I can pop my redhat 8 disks in to my cdrom drive, and do some form
> >of system restore, or if I can simply pop redhat 9 disks in and upgrade
> >to rh9 preserving all my configuration files, and home folders.
> >Any help will be greatly appriciated, thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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