Topic: Upgrade from 5.1.2 to 5.6

[Bill Prescott]

Okay, I love this e-smith thing, but am a newbie at Linux in general.

I have been running 5.1.2 for quite a while. Backed up via DDS 2 tapes. It has been running on an old Compaq Pentium 200 system.

I have a used IBM Xseries 200 Pentium III 800 now with a DDS3 tape drive.

Is the upgrade as simple as backing up the old 5.1.2 system to my dekstop PC and then installing 5.6 on the IBM and restoring from the desktop PC?

I am skeptical to say the least. I do see that the mail folders are better organized on 5.6. Does the mail magically find it's way into these new locations? Or is there a need to sacrifice a chicken and shake the bones to get the voodoo to happen?

An Inquiring mind would love to know...

Bill

[Guck Puppy]

I tried it... 5.1.2 on an old pentium, 5.6 installed on fresh Athlon 900 system with asus a7n266 mb.

The Restore went easily enough, but the results weren't good. The configuration information (like what ethernet cards are in use) was "restored" too - not useful if the machine being restored to doesn't have the same hardware config.

I'm going to try again, having a dissection of the smeserver.tgz that is the backup file, see if I can pick out the parts I really don't want "restored".

G

[Charlie Brady]

Guck Puppy wrote:

> The Restore went easily enough, but the results weren't good.
> The configuration information (like what ethernet cards are
> in use) was "restored" too - not useful if the machine being
> restored to doesn't have the same hardware config.

All you need to do, GP, is go through the configuration option of the console menu, reconfigure to match your new hardware, and one reboot later, it'll all be running just as you would like it to.

If you find this not to be the case, please be sure to send an email off, with details, to smebugs@mitel.com.

Regards

Charlie

[Guck Puppy]

Thanks for the tip Charlie - I should have known... next time, I will do it that way.

In the end, I did hack up the backup file to change the ip address, hostname & the ethernet drivers that would be used. So it wasn't so much a backup I restored, more of a pre-configuration file...

See, the tweak with my system is I have the A7N266-VM Asus MB, which means I have to download and install the redhat NFORCE driver package rpm from the nvidia site for the embedded NIC and apply it manually - can't select the nvnet ethernet driver using the configuration.

I'm now copying over the ibay content and things look pretty rosy... (touch wood).

G