Upgrade HOWTO?

jcmanous · 05-05-2005, 01:45 PM

Greetings,
I'm looking for some semblance of a how-to on the process to upgrade from Redhat 7.3 to RHEL 4.0.

I realize that this question is a mixed bag. Normally I "upgrade" by backing up essential services and doing a re-install, but at this phase I'm fairly certain an in-place upgrade is what is required.

Does anyone here have some working knowledge of how this is done? Any email, web link or good advice will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Jason Manous
Principal System Administrator
University of Georgia
jcmanous@uga.edu

masonm · 05-05-2005, 07:36 PM

I don't know of any good way to upgrade RedHat that actually works well without creating problems. In my experience a clean install is the best bet.

jcmanous · 05-06-2005, 07:38 AM

That's unfortunately what I've experienced as well. I've googled for days for documents but the evidence seems to point to a re-install unless you are running one of Redhat's full versions (eg. RHEL3, etc.) in which case there is a fairly clear upgrade path.