[WBEL-users] RH 9.0 to Whitebox 3.0?

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've spent quite a bit of time on the phone with the Redhat folks,
discussing upgrading from RH 9.0 to RHEL WS. One of the issues is the
fact the kernel is differant and requires differant utilities.  

The other differance is the large variety of packages that have been
"tweaked" such as apache.  There are so many little changes that you are
almost quaranteed  enough "trivial" problems to result in an unstable
system.

I just went ahead and did a fresh install -and I had very good results.
In fact the disk I/O was so much faster I was shocked...


:) Dave

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:30:29PM -0500, Michael Cozzi wrote:
>     Thanks in advance for your comments.
> 
>     I've got three servers that have been in production since RedHat
7.0.
> All of them have been upgraded through apt-get to version 9.0- with no
> problems, and in fact remotely. There were some config conflicts that
had
> to be resolved, but basically, it was a no problem deal.
> 
>     I need to migrate these servers, hopefully, without a complete
> rebuild.
> 
>     What is the current package compatibility between RH9 and Whitebox
> 3.0?

RHEL3 is something between RH9 and Fedora Core 1.

>     It it possible to just yum the box to the current release? It
worked
> between full releases on RedHat, and I need an easy way out.

Possibly will yum work. But RH's people never tested this upgrade so you
have been warned :-)

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