I'd suggest that you consider upgrading to 8.0. I've been very impressed with the changes in 8.0 primarily in the area of user interface. I've experienced problems with RHL upgrades in the past. But I believe the bulk of those problems owed to the fact that I was attempting to upgrade where the disk setup was just too "tight". Perhaps in contrast to to 7.0, both 7.3 and 8.0 put a lot of files into /usr/share. You'll may make things easier for yourself if /usr/share is on its own partition. Aside from the be prepared for a general tightening of security. If you use sendmail, you'll probably have to add a "sendmail: ALL" into /etc/hosts.allow as the default is to only do mail handling from localhost. RHL 8.0 uses apache 2.x whereas RHL7.3 still uses the 1.3.x versions. Having installations on hard disks with enough hard drive space has made both upgrades, 7.3 and 8.0, pretty painless. As Charles Anderson ;) may likely suggest to you, be sure to read (and digest) the README files on the install disks... probably before you start to alleviate too many surprizes. (Foolish boy that I was, I *didn't*. And to my embarassment, he [rightfully] rubbed my nose in it. But, hey, I learned my lesson.) FYI, this may not be totally meaningful without know how much and just what exactly in installed. But, that said, I'd characterize my installation as medium -- neither slim nor fat. Here's some pertinent partition usages: Filesystem 1K Blocks Used Available % Mounted on /dev/hda3 497861 80662 391495 18% / /dev/hda1 31079 6419 23056 22% /boot /dev/hda11 2063504 98612 1860072 6% /home /dev/hda7 2063504 1209760 748924 62% /usr /dev/hda9 521748 113052 382192 23% /usr/local /dev/hda8 2063504 729108 1229576 38% /usr/share /dev/hda10 521748 154348 340896 32% /usr/src /dev/hda5 497829 76114 396013 17% /var -PG On 10/18/2002 9:53 AM, Richard Goodman <dick@goodman1.net> wrote:
I have four RH servers, two 7.0 and two new 7.3 servers just put up last 6 weeks or less How painless would an upgrade of the older servers from 7.0->7.3 be? Any surprises I should know about? Any comments or advice? I've never done a version upgrade before.
I already have a CD with the most important security upgrades I used on the 7.3 servers after I had worm (Slapper/Cinik) problems.
Dick
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On Friday 18 October 2002 11:03, Peter Gutowski wrote:
I'd suggest that you consider upgrading to 8.0. I've been very impressed with the changes in 8.0 primarily in the area of user interface.
I've experienced problems with RHL upgrades in the past. But I believe the bulk of those problems owed to the fact that I was attempting to upgrade where the disk setup was just too "tight". Perhaps in contrast to to 7.0, both 7.3 and 8.0 put a lot of files into /usr/share. You'll may make things easier for yourself if /usr/share is on its own partition.
Aside from the be prepared for a general tightening of security. If you use sendmail, you'll probably have to add a "sendmail: ALL" into /etc/hosts.allow as the default is to only do mail handling from localhost. RHL 8.0 uses apache 2.x whereas RHL7.3 still uses the 1.3.x versions.
Is the php module ready for 2.x? I've been thinking about giving RH 8.0 a try to see if I can make use of my usb ports!
Having installations on hard disks with enough hard drive space has made both upgrades, 7.3 and 8.0, pretty painless. As Charles Anderson ;) may likely suggest to you, be sure to read (and digest) the README files on the install disks... probably before you start to alleviate too many surprizes. (Foolish boy that I was, I *didn't*. And to my embarassment, he [rightfully] rubbed my nose in it. But, hey, I learned my lesson.)
FYI, this may not be totally meaningful without know how much and just what exactly in installed. But, that said, I'd characterize my installation as medium -- neither slim nor fat. Here's some pertinent partition usages:
Filesystem 1K Blocks Used Available % Mounted on /dev/hda3 497861 80662 391495 18% / /dev/hda1 31079 6419 23056 22% /boot /dev/hda11 2063504 98612 1860072 6% /home /dev/hda7 2063504 1209760 748924 62% /usr /dev/hda9 521748 113052 382192 23% /usr/local /dev/hda8 2063504 729108 1229576 38% /usr/share /dev/hda10 521748 154348 340896 32% /usr/src /dev/hda5 497829 76114 396013 17% /var
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On 10/18/2002 9:53 AM, Richard Goodman <dick@goodman1.net> wrote:
I have four RH servers, two 7.0 and two new 7.3 servers just put up last 6 weeks or less How painless would an upgrade of the older servers from 7.0->7.3 be? Any surprises I should know about? Any comments or advice? I've never done a version upgrade before.
I already have a CD with the most important security upgrades I used on the 7.3 servers after I had worm (Slapper/Cinik) problems.
Dick
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Wes Allen <wallen@charter.net> writes:
Is the php module ready for 2.x? I've been thinking about giving RH 8.0 a try to see if I can make use of my usb ports!
I'm confused, why would you change distributions, just to try and get USB working? This is mostly functinality provided by the kernel: just upgrade your kernel. WRT usb, you may need to play around with hotplug, etc...which may require package upgrades. In most cases, getting new hardware support does not require upgrading your distribution (not counting video in X :), but instead requires upgrading your kernel. -- Josh Huber
Is the php module ready for 2.x? I've been thinking about giving RH 8.0 a try to see if I can make use of my usb ports!
I'm confused, why would you change distributions, just to try and get USB working? This is mostly functinality provided by the kernel: just upgrade your kernel.
I was curious about this as well, have you tried any of the Mandrake forums, newsgroups, or mailing lists? I have 9.0 running on my Dell laptop without issue and plugging in my dad's digital camera worked quite well (I don't have any USB devices of my own, so I don't have too much experience playing around with it). Just my two cents. Brian J. Conway bconway@alum.wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992
Hi all, how nice r u doin 2day ? Ehmm, okay....... Btw, I itend my self to build a new redhat 8. I've my server running perfect with RedHat 7.3 already. Can somebody tell me that about the recomendation to use redhat 8 ? Is redhat 8 having better performance than 7.3 ? What is something that speacially i have to know before creating a new machine with redhat 8 ? well, I'll replace my rh 7.3 server if rh 8 if Rh 8 can be trusted to rum my webserver which doin' streaming, music and movie streaming...... Thanks Man........
Is the same problem with modssl and apache will be happen again in RH 8 ? any news ? Thanks.......
Hi all, in RH 6.x and 7.x, we can still find xconfiguration in setup. Where can i find or what's the application to run the xconfiguration? Thanks man.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:25:40PM +0700, Aramico wrote: aramico> Hi all, in RH 6.x and 7.x, we can still find xconfiguration in setup. aramico> Where can i find or what's the application to run the xconfiguration? aramico> Thanks man. redhat-config-xfree86 All the new tools are called redhat-config-something You should read the release notes in /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0 to see what changed, like DMA is off by default on all CD/DVD drives, sendmail setup changed, and fonts/locales changed. RH 8.0 is compiled with GCC 3.2, so it should be faster, yes. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
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