Server Distributions

Frank Wiles frank at wiles.org
Thu Nov 18 11:33:44 CST 2004


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:29:16 -0600
Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:

> As I said to Dave Hull, I have some clients who are still running RH
> 7.x servers, and I'm at a loss for what to tell them about upgrading.
> 
> They can't afford RedHat's Enterprize subscriptions.  If they could,
> they'd probably go with Microsoft because there are more prople who
> are familiar with it.  (They don't have to go looking for linux
> geeks.)
> 
> When RedHat changed it's policies they promised that they would
> document the procedure for upgrading from 7.x and 9.x to Fedora, but
> I've never been able to find those documents.

  Just update them to Fedora.  I would suggest a reinstall vs an
  upgrade. There always seems to be an issue or two with upgrading and
  if these systems are setup sanely there isn't much of a time
  difference. 

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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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