[Gllug] Upgrading from RH 9

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:58:01AM +0100, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
> 
> I'm considering the upgrade from RH 9 to RH Enterprise, but
> have read it isn't an upgrade, it's a new install.

Yes: I find it much easier to reinstall than to attempt to upgrade
(even if RH Enterprise 4 will attempt an upgrade anyway).
I did this 6 months ago, a few things broke, needed to be recompiled, ...
I assume that you have kept careful note of all your customisations
and so you can redo them.
My /home is a separate partition, I did not touch that.

> Has anyone had problems with this?  Is it time to ditch RH
> and go for Fedora?

No. By the sound of it the machine is something important that you
want to have a long life, in that case Fedora is not for you, it will
drop out of maintainance in a year or so. RH Enterprise (or Centos)
will be maintained (security fixes/...) for several years -- that is what
you want.

-- 
Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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