Hi folks,
yesterday I did a successful upgrade of my 6.01 to 7.0!! And it works "like a charm" (as there is a saying in english - iirc...
As you may see in the signature, it's a quite simple and average machine behind an ADSL-Router. I use it for our home network and for the hosting of several smaller and bigger websites (and since yesterday as a SlimServer
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How did I upgrade?
Kruhm's thread here -->
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32381.0 "inspired" me and because I'm no geek I didn't fiddle out the comparison of original and additionally installed rpms. It was more a "trial'n'error" thing. So here I went:
1. Diskimage to new and bigger harddrive
2. Resize partition on new hardisk to use unallocated diskspace
3. Keep the old disk as a backup.
4. Remove BY HAND
and with --nodeps all additional rpms which did'nt appear in the install log of the first 6.01 installation (which I found in the root folder)... that took me some time and about two beers
5. Rename the custom-template-folders to *.bak
6. Reboot from original 6.01-CD and do an upgrade with it to reinstall all the missing --nodeps-RPMS.
7. Test it with a reboot to see if it works: works with some small exceptions ("qmail-authentication-mod-thing" e.g.)
8. Put in 7.0 CD - perform a CD check - and do the upgrade
9. Reboot and enjoy! 3rd beer!
Maybe some of you laugh for this way is not very elegant. But as we say in Germany (and maybe also elsewhere?): "Alle Wege führen nach Rom!"
I'm so glad I did it! This is such a good work! WELL DONE!!!!
What I really like are some additional contribs and how they work:
- backup2
- remoteuseraccess
- awstats
- slimserver
- eaccelerator
- config apache error pages
- new phpmyadmin
- ...
and of course some of the basic functionalities:
- yum
- software installation
- antivirus and spam
- smtp-authentication @ provider
- and all the others I didn't discover yet!!!
Though it seems, that booting takes a bit longer and the OS needs better hardware... But for my kind of server it still seems fast enough!
I really love it! You are saving me a lot of nerves and time and also some money. Time to donate I think!
Hope I didn't forget anything! Anyway: I can sleep well now! Safe and sound...!
Cheers,
Johannes.