Hello Experts,

We have a production Apache Server running on SLES 10 SP4 and we wish to migrate it onto new hardware.
For this , we wish to use the operating system as it is i.e. SLES 10 SP4. Is there any way by which we can make sure that when we install SLES 10 SP4 onto new machine , the exact RPMs
will be installed during installation process as there are on the existing system? I do not wish to clone the existing system as some of the properties will be changed to match the new
hardware setup, e.g. in the new system the hard disk is much bigger so likewise we will setup the partitioning. We only wish to make sure that the Package repository is same.
One thought would be to create the software repository of the existing system and feed it to the new installation. But this might create lot of RPM dependencies problems.
Any pointers in this regard will be helpful.

Thanx.


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in a terminal you can get the list of RPMs installed using
But this is basic. I'm sure there are other more efficient ways or tools to accomplish the same thing.

Yes this much I have already collected. I am too waiting for a reply which is more efficient than this. Thanx anyways.

No worries.

Everyone in your shoes would welcome the chance to upgrade to the newest SLES, I have hard time understanding the rationale behind keeping an outdated OS. Besides, it may even not have support for newer hardware.

Actually, http://www.mondorescue.org/ is good for this kind of thing. I've used it myself for copying to the SAME HW. For new hw you're going to need the right drivers/kernel modules etc installed, so (TBH) a fresh install of the OS then add on top (eg rsync), or as suggested, just go with the latest SLES as part of this move anyway.

NB: you're going to have to do regression testing anyway, so you might as well go with the latest & greatest.

you are paying novell for the OLD SELS 10 support

what dose the novell tech support say

but really WHY stay with OLD software on new hardware ?????
it is like installing WindowsXP(64bit) on a new I7 CPU with 12 gig ram

Ok @1st thanx all for the pointers.

Here is my explanation to the golden question as to why we wish to retain the old OS. Is simply because our customer want to continue with the old custom software which only runs on certain OS. ie Sles 10 SP4. No variations allowed!!!

Mondo is a good option perhaps as I have myself used it in past for building a complete clone system. But here the requirement is little bit different as I wish to only migrate the Packages in questions. But I would certainly go back and check if Mondo provides such a way out.

Thanks once again. And if any questions please go ahead n ask.

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