Re: To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution

2010-03-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 3/3/10, Seann Clark wrote: >    I am polling for options on some of my > servers. I have two that are out of date now, one sorely out > of date (using Fedora 8) and I am wondering what the best > path to upgrading that would be. I would go over to CentOs > on it, but I don't know how

Re: To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution

2010-03-03 Thread David Burns
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Seann Clark wrote: > All, > > I am polling for options on some of my servers. I have two that are out > of date now, one sorely out of date (using Fedora 8) and I am wondering what > the best path to upgrading that would be. I would go over to CentOs on it, > but

Re: To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution

2010-03-03 Thread Seann Clark
Timothy Murphy wrote: Seann Clark wrote: The other system is too large, in terms of file system to effectively back up (3.2 Terabytes of space) given my current means, and that system is on Fedora 9. Using pre-upgrade in theory would work, but as I haven't used it, I am not sure how it would

Re: To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution

2010-03-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Seann Clark wrote: > The > other system is too large, in terms of file system to effectively back > up (3.2 Terabytes of space) given my current means, and that system is > on Fedora 9. Using pre-upgrade in theory would work, but as I haven't > used it, I am not sure how it would impact the box, e

RE: To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution

2010-03-03 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
> All, > > I am polling for options on some of my servers. I have > two that are > out of date now, one sorely out of date (using Fedora 8) and I am > wondering what the best path to upgrading that would be. I > would go over > to CentOs on it, but I don't know how stable the move out b

To upgrade or to change to a more 'stable' distrobution

2010-03-03 Thread Seann Clark
All, I am polling for options on some of my servers. I have two that are out of date now, one sorely out of date (using Fedora 8) and I am wondering what the best path to upgrading that would be. I would go over to CentOs on it, but I don't know how stable the move out be or what the level