Donnie Vazquez wrote:
>
>
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
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>> Donnie Vazquez wrote:
>>
>>> Is anyone aware of a comprehensive guide to "upgrade" RH 7.3 to RHEL
>>> 3? I have searched all over the place and can't seem to come up with
>>> anything.
>>>
>> Do you mean to do an _upgrade_ instead of an _install_?
>
>
> I mean a reinstall, sorry about that. That's why I put upgrade in quotes
> because it's not really an upgrade. Anyway, what I'm looking for is a
> Red Hat specific guide telling me exactly what I need to bring over to
> the new installation in order for the change to be as transparent as
> possible. For example, what configuration files, user info, etc.
>
I am pretty sure there is none.

THe best I have every found is to make three backup tapes of everything
on the machine and then restore /home entire and everything else
piecemeal. Even that is not automatic, as applications disappear, and
other incompatable ones appear. It took three weeks of off-and-on work
to get gnucash to work, for example: I needed pieces from RHEL 3, RHL 9,
Fedora 1, and a bit of other stuff from rpmfind. I doubt there is a book
that explains how to do even that.

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