Topic: upgrade 5.6 to 6.0

[ppg]

How to upgrade 5.6 installed to 6.0?  Where is a how-to??
Best a 6.0 install? What changes?
Thx.

[Rasputin]

Just boot off the 6.0 CD. It will detect that SME Server 5.6 is already installed on your computer and offer to upgrade your setup. The whole process took me about 15-20 minutes.

[RobH]

If you want to play it safe, uninstall any added contribs from the server.

You can then reinstall them after the upgrade. I hace found doing this can save you time later if anything gets "broken".


Rob.

[paulfoel]

If you want to play it safe, uninstall any added contribs from the server.

You can then reinstall them after the upgrade. I hace found doing this can save you time later if anything gets "broken".


Rob.

So no 'dangers' in upgrading from 5.6 to 6.0 ?

Is it really as simple as just booting from the 6.0 CD ?

What are the changes/enhancements in 6.0 ?

[mrjhb3]

Most of the changes are documented here.  

http://www.e-smith.org/article.php3&mode=threaded&order=0

[ppg]

Thank you very much to all by your attention and fast answer.  I am a nebwie in SME and every day I like more, the distribution and people.

[ppg]

MIA.
I downloaded 6.0, copied it to a CD, verified md5sum. Installing  on floppy obtain message error:

cannot find ks.cfg on boot floppy
Error opening: kickstart file /tmp/ks.cfg: no such file or directory
.............
IOerror: [errno2]No such file or directory: '/tmp/ks.cfg'

I boot on floppy with /images/es/boot.img.
what happens?
thx.

[ace]

I have also had the following error when booting from the floppy.

MIA.
I downloaded 6.0, copied it to a CD, verified md5sum. Installing  on floppy obtain message error:

cannot find ks.cfg on boot floppy
Error opening: kickstart file /tmp/ks.cfg: no such file or directory
.............
IOerror: [errno2]No such file or directory: '/tmp/ks.cfg'

I boot on floppy with /images/es/boot.img.
what happens?
thx.

Any suggestions?

[raem]

The upgrade from 5.6 to 6.0 should run OK, but watch out for any contribs you have installed. Some need to be upgraded for v6.0 eg arkeia, backup2ws, LAT, & I think also the user manager/panel contrib. There have been some posts about which contribs work OK with v6.0 but most authors have now updated their packages. You should install the new ones.

Also watch out for lock up problems if you have anti virus scanning and particularly spamassassin enabled. Low end machines with small amout of RAM that worked quite OK with v5.6 will probably be a problem under load conditions. Ideally to run v6.0 with various contribs installed and running you want a minimum processor of 500MHz (or better) and 512Mb RAM. There have been numerous posts about problems people have had with low end machines locking up and I had the problem also.

[cbm2111]

i copy the ks_stub.cfg to you boot floopy. You may need to rename this file to ks.cfg.  that's all
Problema Resuelto
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