[WBEL-users] Upgrading a RH 7.3 box : a few tricky questions

[Benedikt Carda]

Hey,

I think you should only copy the lines above UID 500 into the new 
/etc/password, /etc/group and /etc/shadow file. This would be the save 
way, as everything below UID 500 is more or less system owned and you 
can run into problems, if you just copy the values of your RH 7.3 system 
onto the new one (it may be that system users do not have the same UID 
in the new setup).

You can copy the samba password file as samba does not have any system 
users.

Regarding the RAID-system both ways should be possible. You can savely 
add them to the DiscDruid setup, just make sure that you do not choose 
to partition anything again. Of course you should be able to mount 
partitions later by editing the /etc/fstab file, anyway I have no 
experience with tjat. I just know adding them already with DiscDruid 
works without any problems.

Best Regards,
Benedikt.



Jan-Albert van Ree schrieb:

>I'm about to upgrade a box running RH 7.3 + Fedora Legacy updates to WBEL
>The box is a standard Dell PowerEdge 600SC, 3 SCSI disks.
>sda is OS + home dirs
>sdb + sdc is a software RAID1 with our important files, mounted under /raid
>All partitions are EXT3
>
>I plan on doing a full backup of everything to a separate IDE harddrive, 
>then wipe OS partition, start anew and lateron edit /etc/fstab to add the 
>RAID setup, or am I better of doing this at install? I assume remounting 
>the EXT3 /home won't be an issue (always did that at home with my RedHat / 
>Fedora setups)
>
>Also, can I simply after installing copy back /etc/password , /etc/group 
>and /etc/shadow to keep current passwords? Ditto for the samba password 
>file... 
>Thanks in advance for the help!
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