Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:25:29 -0500
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
Thanks to Jeff Foster, Bob Sloane, Stephen L. LaBelle, Jim Eiler, Shaun
Racine, and Martin Rønde Andersen.
Most replied to say they were completely successful.
Areas where problems occurred:
space in /, expand it from 128MB to 256MB
A single-board VME based alpha did require a patch kit in 5.1 before 5.1B
could be installed
RAID Array 300 GUI could not be installed in 5.1B
"If you are running cluster the only way is to build a new one node
cluster, and then ex. 5.1 , 5.1a and then 5.1b."
Areas where complexity were reduced because of a "double upgrade":
No patch needs to be installed between the first and second upgrades
Some recommended a clean install but made sure to mention making an on-line
copy of /, /usr, and /var before starting. It simplifies things such as
rebuilding crontab entries quickly.
============= Original question ===============
Has anybody performed back to back upgrades in a single session to bring a
system up to 5.1b from 4.0g?
Did you encounter any unusual problems that couldn't be forseen?
Re: Fedora Core 6 ROCKS ! Salute to the developers ! ...Upgrades leave rpmnew or rpmsave files, so short of losing out on technological changes, what would make one be better than the other. ...Merging config files from rpmsave or rpmnew files should serve the same function. ... After the install is done I try to figure out what needs to be changed and "bring forward" whatever I customized. ... Unsupported packages are even worse for a distro like Fedora or RHEL. ... (Fedora)
Re: Fedora Core 6 ROCKS ! Salute to the developers ! ... Whenever I did my first clean install later on, ...Upgrades leave rpmnew or rpmsave files, so short of losing out on technological changes, what would make one be better than the other. ... So, on the laptop I mentioned, I edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables, /etc/fstab, etc. to bring them back to where I want while the various user rc and configuration files just get dropped into place. ... Unsupported packages are even worse for a distro like Fedora or RHEL. ... (Fedora)
Re: Upgrading to SBS2003 - realistic to do ourselves? ... the IT Pros because we are talking about a pretty long day of work. ... A scratch install of SBS remains on of the big lies of the business world. ...server is a typical 6 hr minimum process for scratch install. ... assumption that for an IT Pro...doing upgrades is a way to make money. ... (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000)
Re: Warning: Beware of Office 2003 Service Pack 3 ... that none of the reg keys that the upgrades were supposed to install and ... client has a bank that sends a credit-card account file to an internal ... (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
Re: Hyped to be migrating to Linux... need input. ... There are so many distros.... EPSON Perfection1250 USB Scanner... You can certainly share one swap space on each machine, and each install... FWIW - I've done in place upgrades fairly recently on SUSE and Ubuntu. ... (alt.os.linux)
