Re: Red Hat 9 end-of-life and Red Carpet
Tuomas Kuosmanen <[email protected]> Thu, 06 May 2004 05:51:51 +0300
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--=-Wx1bj+VL51yzaDntEPyg Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-yG50tt1rTCtLCIU+OPtb" --=-yG50tt1rTCtLCIU+OPtb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:15 -0400, Mark Gordon wrote: > I tend not to trust upgrades between vendors. If you have /home on a > different partition from / (and the same is true of any other > directories you need preserved), you can just do a clean install and not > reformat /home (and other such partitions). Otherwise, you'll need to > tar up /home (and other such directories), store those files on another > box, do a fresh install, and restore the old directories. I like to > back up /etc as well, though only for reference. Things built from > source into e.g. /usr/local may well need to be rebuilt and reinstalled > on any OS upgrade, and things installed into /opt are similarly iffy. > Third-party software should probably be reinstalled. That's pretty much > how I've done it. Also you need to check that your user-id is the same on the new installation - on Suse 9.0 I think it defaulted to 500 and up for new users, while on redhat it has been from id number 1000 and up if I remember correctly. Thus you need to check your user-id on current setup (id <username> from the commandline, or with the user admin tool) and set it to be the same when you create the account on the new installation. Then untar the homedir - otherwise you need to change the file ownership by hand later. I think SUSE 9.1 has 1000 and up for new accounts, so it might just work right, but it is always worth checking. //Tuomas -- Tuomas Kuosmanen Art Director, Novell Ximian Group <[email protected]> --=-yG50tt1rTCtLCIU+OPtb Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.1.13"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:15 -0400, Mark Gordon wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">I tend not to trust upgrades between vendors. If you have /home on a</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">different partition from / (and the same is true of any other</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">directories you need preserved), you can just do a clean install and not</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">reformat /home (and other such partitions). Otherwise, you'll need to</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">tar up /home (and other such directories), store those files on another</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">box, do a fresh install, and restore the old directories. I like to</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">back up /etc as well, though only for reference. Things built from</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">source into e.g. /usr/local may well need to be rebuilt and reinstalled</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">on any OS upgrade, and things installed into /opt are similarly iffy.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Third-party software should probably be reinstalled. That's pretty much</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">how I've done it.</FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> Also you need to check that your user-id is the same on the new installation - on Suse 9.0 I think it defaulted to 500 and up for new users, while on redhat it has been from id number 1000 and up if I remember correctly. Thus you need to check your user-id on current setup (id <username> from the commandline, or with the user admin tool) and set it to be the same when you create the account on the new installation. Then untar the homedir - otherwise you need to change the file ownership by hand later.<BR> <BR> I think SUSE 9.1 has 1000 and up for new accounts, so it might just work right, but it is always worth checking.<BR> <BR> //Tuomas<BR> <BR> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <FONT COLOR="#666699">--</FONT><BR> <TABLE BGCOLOR="#efefef" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="7" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="64"> <IMG SRC="cid:[email protected]" ALIGN="top" ALT="" BORDER="0"> </TD> <TD WIDTH="90%"> <B><FONT COLOR="#000000">Tuomas Kuosmanen</FONT></B><BR> <B><FONT COLOR="#666699">Art Director, Novell Ximian Group</FONT></B><BR> <B><FONT COLOR="#666699"><[email protected]></FONT></B> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> --=-yG50tt1rTCtLCIU+OPtb-- --=-Wx1bj+VL51yzaDntEPyg Content-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=tigert-signature.png Content-Type: image/png; name=tigert-signature.png Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAEAAAABABAMAAABYR2ztAAAAMFBMVEUAAgASEA4cGhYrJiE7MitO RDpgVUdsX094aVmIdWSZhnKsmIS5pZHKuKTi0Lr15dBbHLUHAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwY AAAAB3RJTUUH1AQdBhwNjsOASQAABNpJREFUeNqtld9v21QUxxfWwdsUp1kFAqTFGUK8NbEHGry0 s91JCInQ2l03BKrK7IwOJB62uB0/BIg2aTUqQGx1kq0SvLS2WXkZsPp6ewFpokm619HY7T+we/Mf 2BzbSeu+7WFHUaLkfvI95557/L2HDj2FOCIrfZIkKYVjwZfJ2IpUKDyRArUfqUz0mewthe8DShiq yM6Wi6qqKqp6JRcBwxFQCWM++fbaTNWoLizPaOXLEZCLA98dMcoLhq5VF0ClNBSsJDJxYG5an60Z erWiVeYVeSpeQwQsGKs1U69WtUq5BLsO6kzsA2V1pmZVzaal61pZVWReinL0gDKkNS3DbjU2qhVV USSRH4sBwbJ6EVmo5TpWVVMVyMALyb1GDQR7Vy4hZGPXbRhaSZYkQWQHY0AJ+lRHdssl2LHWynKg wA8dBIqo2XQJIa6ll6EEgWcLB4FpGwBMCG4Yy1ADzzGjMQAyXEWtVqBAHCgCAJYRDyjIi7YbAZBj XgYFVjqYon7P2YkA2AcAPD+SjANFI/p/AIAENIoXBuM1FHW3BzQtY1mWxnihEAcu1tydCMBOw9Cv SCLHvRcHZhadHgA5jHlohDAar0G9GjQhTOG2EVoVWfbcr3tACYDpnQjwsdNEyJA5dnY5rjAzHWbo +KDQqCHrOjtSqx8AFkMBz+/YmrmLG7fvTJjmYByYDeR9Qu5w/V6w4//OTqOheCdXPIJ9bLV+SStO Gw7eLRdRYX9glE8hefsRl/1+e02cMLV6y92+UY8pXPK9tnV9fNd37+ZpOr1Qvum2/6of3wce+vgB x7xurzij/aczqb7qYstpmvt9kDtke4jOU9PWP1k5z+SOn9Ov4cYecEwpEvzDIUEZ/vyPj16lkolx Kr2oYWej+9wAcI60T3V87JoXhsfgx+fyqTP6lov2FV4i/+4Gx6Ax+dFEPtk/mvpZv+2Yia5PDGSO 4vt+MK/z2XwunWMy36bEq7cem8PdFAO5d7EfHJJ+haMzJ7hMYip5eGIFb0z2FCbXO9AHF2kik89R SQqAE+Nf4c2/6S4w6Pve413PdVYTmWHwhL6pfm78HbLZnIyAYxSc0paPbcfKZCSQfS2XYoT3ySZ6 ENXQdwIE4GVbazkqPUX1M1SOE74kbfO3SCHxokc6Hmnrakl8JvNGiclTzBiz5LUNMzquxFGYBA/r W5tzE8N0Kpunsm9eZpeIoxtd4GUA8PaWt2kUV7Ngo/1C9cLJAKhFE5E4RaCChx629GLNuX46K9xc GzuzRNyNWmTch0egzTs+cSwDnp/mRmWmJPOzKwRvGp913T6YR+j03CzPn7eRXpWVj+vrHljF1yHw 7PzOTgeM4c8LCs/y55FlaGodrRPc7gLpk/eDR87ib4yUlHGpjpClNez7gV99E3VSXAd7cyxp4+xl LstOINRoNJst0OwCA3NL2G05VvHuuJijssJ5WA0drQekJcgHChVNEfM0y3OfuK7bDC3xxxB4BpqC wTcCjwZn4XnmHhABgCLgsPBhCFxTZQAAOf2WG4aDfopqKP4e2IZxC5wH3Itj8nQrIrrAC3CUIfAo 9GCOoekPQsJpRMBRqLCJ9MoXLRkaxTA0RT9v2HbgI5HJJBgImoZByexdiTSdpYN4wqu5ELuOe1ez Ik2+ckSSnsbV/z+2NQ4Q8ljuEwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== --=-Wx1bj+VL51yzaDntEPyg-- _______________________________________________ red-carpet maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/red-carpet