Topic: New Server

[Rien]

Hello,

I have a server based on a celeron 333 processor and SME-server 5.6u5 with some add-ons which act as a "server and gateway". The harddisk is to small and the system to slow so I bought new hardware.

I have a few quenstions:
1) Should I choose for SME-server 5.6u5 or 6b3 for the new server?
2) How can I copy all the relevant items (mailboxes, mailinglists, webpages etc) to the new configuration?

Rien

[Michael Smith]

Updating your hardware has been addressed in these forums many, many times ... still, here's my take on it:

Use Norton Ghost to copy your existing setup to your new hard drive.  Ghost will offer to expand your partitions; I'd leave "/boot" the same, expand the swap space to twice the RAM in the new server, and let the remaining partition fill all the rest of the new drive ("/").

Then boot the machine from whichever CD you like ... since you have add-ons I'd probably stick with 5.6 ... do an "upgrade" install then re-apply all the Update 5 RPMs.  You should be in good shape.  If something goes wrong, you still have your old install and can re-Ghost.

[Rien]

Thanks,

I thought the install was hardware dependent. My old server is a very old Compac celeron 333. My new server is celeron 1800 (based on P4) a new board with vga, lan and sound. A completely different configuration.