Ancient Fedora 5 servers

SunlightRider · 08-08-2012, 12:20 AM

Hello folks, thank you for taking the time to read & anwser. In my new job there's a few Fedora Core 5 servers which are critical, meaning the whole bussiness runs on them. I'm wondering how-to update the server to a recent release. I know little about Fedora/CentOS/RedHat, but i can feel in my bones that updating will be almost impossible and a REAL BIG PAIN in the a.. . What should I do, remake them?

evo2 · 08-08-2012, 12:45 AM

Hi,

upgrading them would be a huge and painful undertaking. I would recommend instead replacing them with machines running CentOS 6 (or RHEL if you will be purchasing a support contract). Exactly how you go about doing it would depend on what services these machines are providing, how much downtime is acceptable an if you are also replacing hardware.

Evo2.

chrism01 · 08-08-2012, 01:05 AM

As per evo2

FYI: Fedora is RH's bleeding edge R&D distro & should never(!) be used in production.
Latest RHEL/Centos is 6.3; just released

fotoguy · 08-08-2012, 05:32 AM

How about making an virtual image of the old servers, and then run them under a virtual server running the latest version of their operating system, that way you could still have the old servers and software and configurations, but on newer hardware

chrism01 · 08-08-2012, 08:53 PM

FC5 hasn't had any SECURITY updates in years ...

SunlightRider · 08-09-2012, 11:29 PM

Thanks for the replies, I'm going to take a bit of what fotoguy said, and change it a bit. Make images of the current servers, run the images in VM's while I recreate them in a sane OS release.

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Originally Posted by chrism01

FC5 hasn't had any SECURITY updates in years ...

I know... freaks me out