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[Jeremy Baker]

Keith Mastin wrote:

>>On Friday 14 November 2003 12:56 pm, Keith Mastin wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>>"install 7.3 then upgrade"  --  that's easy to say, but how do you go
>>>>about upgrading 7.3 to get to a configuration that could accept
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>binaries
>>>      
>>>
>>>>prepared say for 9.0?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>From the cd's, just like a regular install only choose the upgrade
>>>option.
>>>The binaries are compiled with different versions of gcc, so the
>>>libraries are different too.
>>>      
>>>
>>You are braver than me.  Has this procedure caused problems for you with
>>any of the systems you have upgraded this way?  I have some systems that
>>I would like to get more up to date, but had always thought that the
>>upgrade option would be too dangerous.
>>    
>>
>
>I've upgraded a few redhat machines like this, with the only real problems
>that I can remember off the top of my head is when I (stupidly) had Ximian
>Gnome installed.
>
>As long as /home and all your $user_data are not on the / filesystem there
>should be no problems, although I can't say for sure if you will have
>problems if /home is on /.
>  
>
I have only once tried to upgrade, and that was from RH7.2 to RH7.3, and 
the whole thing crapped out in the middle.  I liked to refer to the 
result as RH7.25, since it did work, but I never did take the time to 
see what did or did not get upgraded.

Jeremy

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