On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:54, Gary Thornock wrote: > I'm slowly becoming interested in upgrading my aging server (RH 7.3 + > SGI XFS). At the moment, I'm thinking of using Fedora.
I know I said I would run Fedora on servers, but I meant new installs. I have to ask, what are you reasons for leaving redhat 7.3? I run all my servers on redhat 7.3 currently and there's not reason to change. I can even run rh9 2.4.20 kernels on it. I currently backport all applicable security patches from rh 9 to 7.3 and even 6.2 (ssh, bind, etc). Apache would be an issue, I suppose, but when forced to I'll just recompile the apache 2.x rpms back to it along with php. I don't need KDE 3 and I don't need gnome 2.4, so redhat 7.3 as a server base will work for the next couple of years for me, dispite redhat's end of life deal. > > Unfortunately, there isn't an SGI installer for Fedora yet. So, I'm > thinking of upgrading the kernel first (SGI does have a kernel RPM > that will work nicely), and then apt-get dist-upgrade against the > Fedora apt repository. I've already done this successfully on > machines that were previously running RH9 and Fedora beta 2, but I've > never attempted it on something as old as RH7.3. I've used apt to upgrade from 7.3 to 9. It was a little tricky and I would hesitate to do it on an in production server that was in use. > > How likely is this to work smoothly? Probably not as smooth as you'd like, but definitely doable if you know what you're doing and upgrade a few core packages at a time. I have successfully done this several times. I would start with the kernel, and then glibc, and then rpm and apt. Then start tackling your server packages (like main, dns, dhcp or http) one at a time and see how bad the dependencies are. Michael > > - Gary > > > ps: A couple of notes before someone asks: > - XFS is required. I have neither the time nor the "scratch" disk > space I would need to convert my existing partitions (~200 GB) > to some other filesystem. Besides, why would I want to? XFS has > been stable, reliable and really fast for quite some time now :) > - Installing the kernel from an RPM is required in this instance, > because, for some reason I've been unable to determine, I have never > been able to successfully compile a kernel on this particular > machine, either from the Red Hat patched sources or from the "clean" > Linus sources, and have it boot. I have compiled my own kernels > plenty of times on other machines, but it just doesn't work on this > one. It's something to do with the motherboard. Whatever the > reason, though, stock kernel RPMs from Red Hat work just fine, and > so do the ones from SGI. > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
