Re: upgrading a red-hat 6.2 system in place ?

From: Josh Zlatin-Amishav (josh_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 29 Jun 2004 - 18:01:40 IDT


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Micha Feigin wrote:

> I was just asked to install apache, ssh etc. on a red-hat 6.2 system. I
> started working on it, but it seems a real pain since it doesn't seem
> to be supported and compiling from source requires me to get quite a
> few packages to compile.
>
> Anyway, is it possible to upgrade it in place to red-hat 7/9/fc or to
> debian (debating between them since I already know debian and I don't
> think anyone using the computer knows red-hat, the root password seems
> to have be unknown for about 5 years, had to use init=/bin/sh to delete
> it and make a new one ;-) or should I just make a clean install over it
> (I'm not really sure what would take more work).

Hi Micha,
From my experience RedHat 6.2 will not "upgrade in place" cleanly to RedHat 7.*.
I would assume the same is true for RedHat 9 too. I had many package dependency
issues that RedHat 7.* was unable to solve.

-- 
   - Josh
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>
> I am tending toward the upgrade since its was partitioned rather
> strangely with root at 2.5 GB, /boot 1.5 GB and /home at 18 GB (home is
> ok, but why does boot need 1.5 GB ?)
>
> Thanks
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