[WBEL-users] RedHat 9 migration?

[Randy Kelsoe]

Kurt Raschke wrote:

>I currently have several servers running at home with RedHat 9.  I am
>presently getting updates from Fedora Legacy, but I would like to move
>those machines to a more modern OS.  I am concerned that Fedora is a
>bit too unstable to run on a server, and furthermore it seems like
>Fedora is on to a new testing release before the bugs have been worked
>out in the current release.
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>
I find Fedora very stable. There are some combinations of hardware that 
cause problems. What are you using for hardware?

>So, I have been evaluating the RHEL rebuild projects.  However, I'm
>not sure if any of the three projects could be used to upgrade from
>RedHat 9, as I would really rather not reinstall these servers.
>Additionally, assuming there even is a viable upgrade path, then which
>RHEL rebuild project should I go with?
>  
>

If you have installed all of your applications with rpm, you will be 
more successful with an upgrade. If you have compiled and installed some 
apps from tarballs, you will probably see some problems. There are 
plenty of people on the Fedora list that have gone the upgrade route and 
upgraded from RH9 to Fedora Core 1. I did an upgrade from RH 7.2 to 8.0 
using apt, and it worked, but it was buggy. Nothing major, but annoying. 
For example, with 7.2 I could right click on the desktop and have a menu 
item to add a launcher. With the apt upgrade, that was gone, but I 
noticed on another machine that had 8.0 loaded from scratch, that the 
'add launcher' was there.

I have quit doing upgrades and instead, I just use a second disk and 
install onto that, then move my data over from the old drive. I then use 
the previous drive for the next upgrade. This is the most stable way to 
go for me.