You might want to look into going with Advanced Server if the machine is one where you can't afford much downtime.
As far as upgrading from 7.3 to 8.0, on every case where I've performed this upgrade (about 4 of them) I've had problems. The most common is when the machine panics during it's first bootup and I have to use the rescue disk to change something that the installer added to lilo.conf. Other problems I've experienced are related to package inconsistencies that you wouldn't see if you had just performed an install. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: Robert Adkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:49 AM To: Kent Borg; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Updating 7.3 to 8.0 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. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
