upgrading Redhat

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, burns wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 22:53, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Got a question for anyone who's upgraded Redhat.  I've got a slew of
> > RH-7.3-XFS boxen.  I'm thinking of upgading them to RH9-XFS, however i'm
> > not clear on whether I can jump straight to RH9, or do I have to first
> > upgrade to RH8, and then RH9?  Also, has anyone used the (un)official XFS
> > installer CD to do the upgrade?
>
> Lonni, I'd do myself a favour, if I were you, and just go with a
> straight clean scratch install of RH9 (don't mess with RH8 as I don't
> consider it all that stable).

ugh.  that's not what i wanted to hear.  several of these boxes have a ton
of custom binaries on them, and i don't know how well they'd run restoring
from backup.

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