-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 10:14 am, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a solid/stable 8.2 box working as a webserver. > Since 8.2 is no longer supported, I imagine i have no > choice but to upgrade (not that savvy to make my own > update rpm's!) > I want to throw 9.1 in there. Do i have to go in > steps, 8.2 -->9.0 -->9.1 or simply throw 9.1 cd's and > install (live or from bootcd?). > Is it workable or I should simply go thru a > Complete-re-install? > > _Thanks > The last 8.2 --> 9.1 upgrade I did wasn't an upgrade but had to be a fresh install. The machine concerned was running on XFS, and the installer kept choking. I had the same problem with a 9.0 machine yesterday trying to go to 9.2. On that one the upgrade didn't like the flavour of Reiser FS used on 9.0.
HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-18mdk 10:44:49 up 17:45, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.38 Law of Continuity: Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail the same way. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/mAatG11CaRuZZSIRAiMFAKCq0C7axHLERnRYdzh+V2BWuc4kzQCfaqKn iZ95J5AwIKAHmT0vaLYrOSg= =SE79 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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