FC1 / FC2 Update/Upgrade Advice

[kizip]

I have a FC1 box that is running perfect *knock on wood*.

my FC1 box runs mail, dns, 16 domains, php4, MySQL 3.23.58 & PHP Version 4.3.8.

In the past, I have been completly against 'upgrades' I would much rather do a fresh install, but this box has become 'critical' and I cant afford downtime.

with that said *gulp* whats the best way to upgrade *cringes* to FC2?

Any/All help/advice is welcomed. If you need more info, please let me know!

[foolish]

Doing an upgrade from one stable core to another stable core using anaconda (the installer) should be painless, I've never experienced any trouble.

Just to make sure, before you upgrade, make sure you don't have any third party packages that may conflict with the packages in Core 2. Do this to get a list of packages not built by Fedora:


rpm -q --qf "%{name} Packager: %{vendor}" `rpm -qa` | grep -v "Red Hat"


If there's anything in there that's also in Core 2, like a custom kernel build, some custom perl packages or similar, remove the packages before you upgrade.

[crackers]

BACKUP ALL DATA!!! Just to be safe, that is. If you're hosting sites (which it appears), you durn well better be backing up on a daily basis, anyway.

[imdeemvp]

i upgraded for fc1 to fc2 without a problem....but like crackers says do a BACKUP !!!

[mdynac]

my suggestion to you is to start from scratch.......do a fresh install, just burn a cd of all pertinent config files...... i have 2 hard drives on my system, hda contains all of linux and hdb is my home directory..where all my users live... this seems to work well for me.....so for the most part i just burn my hdb to some cd's and any other configs i need from /etc dir and i can usually have all the info i need to manually configure my new setup without too much trouble.... unless certain software has been totally redone.....and my old configs do not work...but , hey s**t happens.

[taylor65]

If you're concerned, and your system is running fine, maybe you shouldn't upgrade. I left one of my systems on FC1 because of the bugs in FC2 with SMB. And I had a RH8 system running TACACs until about 9 months ago because it was running fine and I didn't see a reason to change it.