On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Chuck Noyes wrote:
<Debian to RedHat "upgrade?">
Has anyone tried this? I don't what version of Debian is currently being used. Any guidelines for this kind of migration.
Well, I had all kinds of trouble upgrading from RH 7.1 to 9, and am about to upgrade from Redhat to Debian instead. RH 9 will not install with less than 64Meg of RAM (approximately). A machine that had been running old RH, Suse, or Debian for years (a "scratch" machine I tried various things on) needed to have new RAM before RH 9 could be installed. Also some versions of RH 9 (e.g. one from a Cheapbytes disk of October vintage) will not boot at all on some CPU's (e.g. Cyrix) I submitted a bug report on this a month ago and so far there is no indication that anyone at RH has even read it. For full story, See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Bug number 107806, Kernel oops on boot install If it boots at all, it seems to work well enough.
From: Karl Hiramoto <karl@zoop.org>
Upgrade to some other distro.
Of course, that distro also comes "WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE".
Guideline: 1. make a backup 2. install new distro 3. restore the files that you need.
That's how I would upgrade even from old Redhat to new Redhat. You probably want ext3, and you really can't upgrade in place from ext2. -- Keith ---- Prepratory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion, which he very badly needed.
-- James Joyce, "Ulysses"