Re: How destructive is upgrade?

["Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <randy.flood@scott.af.mil>]

In general upgrades do not destroy your existing system at all.  I've
had pretty good luck with Red Hat's upgrades.  One issue you might have
is the size of your swap partition.  At least in Red Hat 7.1, the
installer informed me that 2.4 based kernels needed more swap space.
But, I had a pretty minimal swap partition on that machine.
(Incidently, the installer happily created a swap file on that machine.)

I'd recommend backing up anything that is important before an upgrade.  

RPMS used to really screw up your configurations during upgrades.  They
have gotten a bit better about that recently.  However, better safe then
sorry.


-----Original Message-----
From: Chester [mailto:chester@langin.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:54 AM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: How destructive is upgrade?


I installed RH 6.1 on several partitions.  If I upgrade to
RH 7.2 or, say, SuSE 7.1, how much of my existing system
will it destroy?  Will it erase the files in my home
directory?  Will I have to reinstall MySQL?

--Chester Langin-------------------------------------------
<http://www.cs.siu.edu/~langin>  <mailto:langin@cs.siu.edu>
---------------------------------Mysterious contradiction--



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