Kent,
Thanks for the info. I do agree that switching the production server
like that could cause some significant issues I really don't want to see.
Unfortunately, I am not blessed with an "endless" IT budget, like some
folks. I simply have two servers to jockey, one running "everything" and
the other as a simple back-up.
The server does perform real work. Without it, we are pretty dead in the
water here.
Regards,
Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
Ph. 586-254-5800
Fx. 586-254-5804
-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Adkins
Subject: Re: Updating 7.3 to 8.0
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:52:00AM -0500, Robert Adkins wrote:
> I have a production server running version 7.3 of Red Hat that
> I would like to update to version 8.0.
Don't. If "production server" means it does real work that you can't
afford to be without, then don't risk doing a Red Hat "update" from
7.3 to 8.0. Build up a Red Hat 8.0 server from scratch, get
everything on it working the way you need, and limit your downtime to
the final cut over of the data. Not only will the odds of your new
server working correctly be much higher, but in the case that it
doesn't work you can revert to the old configuration by simply
throwing the switch back to the old server, hardware and software.
> Does anyone have any experience with performing this type of
> upgrade?
I did something like that with my laptop going from 7.0 to 7.2, I
think it was. Things were always a bit strange. I also did 7.1 to
7.3, I think it was on a development machine at work and it is a bit
strange. (Screensaver won't lock, for example.) These things can be
tracked down, but on a production server that is a bad thing.
-kb, the Kent who thinks hardware is cheap enough that a backup server
should be a full powered beast, and upgrades should be done ping-pong.
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