From: Oron Peled (oron_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 29 Jun 2004 - 18:47:22 IDT
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 17:30, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I was just asked to install apache, ssh etc. on a red-hat 6.2 system. I
I guess you mean a *new* version of apache, ssh etc. Otherwise you could
simply install the original RH-6.2 RPMS.
> Anyway, is it possible to upgrade it in place to red-hat 7/9/fc or to debian
In place upgrade across several versions (e.g: RH-6.2 -> RH-8) is pretty
hopless. More so across distros.
> or should I just make a clean install over it
Yes.
What you need to check is if they have important data or local applications
and evaluate them before moving (on a modern Linux of your choice).
E.g: do they have web-apps on the old apache version and would they run
with the new one (mod_perl, php versions etc.).
> ok, but why does boot need 1.5 GB ?)
No need of course, maybe the previous admin (5 years ago) toggled by
mistake the "grow" option in the partitioning dialog and thus gave the
rest of the disk to this partition (after specifying the other partitions as
fixed size).
100Mb should be more than enough for many kernels + their initrd and
symtabs.
Search the archive for a thread about partitioning practices (~1 month ago?)
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