[TriLUG] RedHat 7.3-->9 upgrade question

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Jun 10 09:47:42 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 12:34, Chris Merrill wrote:
> My home server is currently on RH 7.3.  I use it as a firewall,
> wireless gateway and web/mail server...so besides the core kernel
> and network functions, I use Apache, Postfix and Mailman.  I need
> a feature in the latest release of Mailman - and the list of
> required packages started to balloon very quickly.  So I guess
> it's time for an upgrade.
> 
> I have 2 questions:
> 1) Should I upgrade to RH8 first?...or go straight to RH9?
> 2) Will I see a significant increase in resource requirements?
>     The machine is a P-120 (yes, really!) with 96M.  Will the upgrade
>     add new stuff or just upgrade the existing packages?  I've done
>     upgrades before, but never paid too much attention, since the
>     machines were not hardware-constrained.
> 

You will probably need to do a text install as that might not be enough
memory for a graphical install.  But other than that, you should be
fine... I assume you're not running X or any X applications.  Sure a few
things will be slow but they should run fine.  Make sure you have plenty
of swap.

Note that RHL 9 includes Apache 2.x, so you may have to change some of
your Apache configurations to get it working right after the upgrade. 
Other than that, all your packages will be upgraded -- no new things
will be added, unless you choose to do so at the installation.

Do not upgrade to RHL 8.0 first.  Go straight from 7.3.  I think the
installer can handle upgrades all the way back to RHL 6.2.

--Jeremy
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