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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.

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Donnie Vazquez
Sunderland, MD
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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 have *never* succeeded at getting an _upgrade_ to work. Fortunately, I
am so paranoid I have always had backup tape drives on my machines, so I
always do a fresh install, and then restore needed files from the backups.

Right now, I have three machines.

This one has RHEL3 ES on it. Tbe next one runs RHL 7.3, and the last one
runs RHL 9. I will probably "upgrade" the 7.3 to 9 sometime soon, but I
have to finish configuring this RHEL3 ES machine first, and getting
programs that did not come with it to install and work. Took about three
weeks to get gnucash to install (needed components from RHL 9 and
Fedora). xosview still does not work. I forced it to install, but it
segfaults most of the time. Current project is to get the iptables
firewall working (works, but not fully tested), and Samba so that when I
run Windows 95 on one machine and Windows XP on the other that this
machine can serve them and offload the print spool to another machine.

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Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> 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.

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Donnie Vazquez
Sunderland, MD
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Donnie Vazquez wrote:
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> 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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