[WBEL-users] RedHat Too Expensive / Updating it

[Joshua Kramer]

Wes,

As long as the /home directory is in a separate partition, it should be 
simple to upgrade.  I had a colo'd server running RedHat 8 for the longest 
time.  After finding WBEL, I simply made backups of my databases, copied 
the relevant /etc and /var files to a directory under my home directory, 
and installed WBEL from scratch, making sure not to format my /home 
directory.  After restoring the files (and doing some minor tweaking), 
upgrading from RH8 to WBEL was a relatively painless process that took 4 
hours.

Of course, for some reason, the graphical config tools for Apache and Bind 
won't work with my RH8 files, but I'm well versed enough in editing by 
hand that this was not a problem.

--Josh