[WBEL-users] Upgrading a RH 7.3 box : a few tricky questions
qsm
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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:08:23 -0500
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i think that you have to see this
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/pdfs/rhel3_upgrade.pdf
i used and works fine....
Merry Christmas
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From: Jan-Albert van Ree <javanree@vanree.net>
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Sent: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:35:34 +0100
Subject: [WBEL-users] Upgrading a RH 7.3 box : a few tricky questions
> 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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> Jan-Albert van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/
> VanRee IT Solutions | http://www.vanree.net
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