Re: [SLE] Upgrade to 7.2 to SuSE 8.2

From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 07/29/03

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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:12:59 -0400

    On Monday 28 July 2003 22:25 pm, David wrote:
    > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Alan Dawson wrote:
    > > I have a happy server running SuSE 7.2
    > >
    > > As that is soon to be unsupported by SuSE, I've purchased a copy of
    > > SuSE 8.2, and was hoping to upgrade. The machine runs stock SuSE
    > > 7.2 services, except for a custom compiled php 4.2.3 and mailman
    > > 2.0.11
    > >
    > >
    > > Is anybody got any insight into what's going to break when I put the
    > > SUSE 8.2 CD in and say yes to an upgrade?
    >
    > The upgrade chapter in the book covers most of the issues.
    >
    > You didn't say which stock services you run so people can be more
    > specific.
    >
    > Several people running servers have recommended doing an install on
    > another machine and hot swapping to avoid an unexpectedly long outage.
    >
    > David

    Unless you can back up the entire machine and be prepared to restore it,
    you'd be a dumb *&^% to try it. What do you do if it goes haywire?

    I've only done one upgrade in the my life... it didn't work and I ended
    up doing a NEW INSTALL of the old release. Took me several days to get
    back to where I started. And that was from 8.0 to 8.1. I'll never do
    an upgrade again. 

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