Re: Upgrading RH 9 to RHEL 3: problems? gotchas? what are your experiences?

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:41:38 -0500

On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:35:40 -0400, Jeffrey Silverman wrote:

> * Should I /Upgrade/ or do a /Clean Install/ of RHEL?

I always vote for a clean install. You can choose to preserve
important partitions such as "/home". Upgrading is slow and quirky;
YMMV.

> * What are the concerns regarding upgrading?

In my experience, it's slow, slow, slow.

Under some versions, upgrading sometimes missed RPM prerequisites
because RPM's sometimes get these wrong.
 
> * Will I have to recompile my Apache/PHP server? (i.e. is there binary
> compatibility between RHL9 and RHEL ES 3?) (This may be a moot point as I
> am going to recompile/reinstall Apache soon anyways!)

Should be alright.
 
> * Does RHEL ES have up2date as a command-line client??? I can't seem to
> get a staight answer (or ANY answer, actually) from Red Hat sales. The
> marketing goo-gah on the Red Hat website goes on and on about the modules
> -- update, management, and provisioning -- but they are all GUI clients!
> That is just not gonna work for me.

Yup. Its got "up2date" command line. I don't use no steenkin' GUI!
 
> Please, if you have any experience in upgrading a system from RHL9 (or 8,
> or 7, even!) to RHEL 3, let me know how it went, what you did right, and
> what you did wrong.

IIRC, one good feature: if your machine presently has a RH9 identity with
RHN, installing RHEL should automatically switch your entitlement
channels from RH9 to RHEL.

Go for it.

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