upgrade tips

[Hidong Kim]

Hi,

I have a machine that's been running Red Hat for about four years straight now, since 5.1. It's been upgraded using genuine Red Hat packaged CDs up to 8.0 now. Unfortunately, the last upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 went pretty bad. The upgrade actually aborted with a message saying that X could not be upgraded. Somehow, it did install the 2.4.18-14 kernel, and the machine boots. A lot of stuff, however, is broken. The sound doesn't work, and a lot of the KDE utilities, like the calculator and CD player are gone. I've never had problems upgrading using the commercial Red Hat CDs in the past. I don't know why the X upgrade crashed this time. I haven't changed any hardware since I got this machine. It has a Matrox Millennium II video card. I've read on this list that some people don't upgrade. They do a fresh installation each time with a new version of Red Hat. I'm thinking about trying this for this machine. My concern is that this machine is an NIS and Samba server. There are a lot of important configuration files on the root partition. If I wanted to do a fresh installation, what files or directories should I back up to be able to recover NIS, Samba, networking, etc., as easily as possible? Thanks,



Hidong



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