On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:03:52AM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> >> So, the question: If you had to pick a current distro that is closest
> >> to what SL5 will eventually be, would you start with SL4.2 or with
> >> Fedora Core 6?
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:18:14AM +0000, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > ...
> >> I also discovered that RHEL5 beta 2 is available (!) at:
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5-Beta2/
We have a "alpha" of this beta. It is located at
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/
-Connie Sieh
> >>
> >> I made some CDs, and did an install on a spare drive, and RHEL5b2
> >> more or less works. The gnome logout process does not have a checkbox
> >> for "Save Current Setup", but I've found no other annoyances so far.
> >>
> >> So, new plan. I will duplicate the SL4.4 drive onto the spare drive,
> >> then try an RHEL5 upgrade on that drive and see what breaks. If that
> >> works, I may continue my upgrade/rebuild work on that drive.
> >
> > And here I ran into the next bottleneck - perhaps due to the way
> > anaconda works. When I try to upgrade from SL4.4 to RHEL5 beta 2,
> > the installer does not recognize the older version of Linux and
> > wants to do a clean install with a repartition. One can "custom"
> > past the repartition and reformat, but it still wants to select
> > new packages and seems to ignore what's there. I did not commit
> > to the install - perhaps it mentions upgrade in the next page, but
> > that would be at the point that the install process normally starts
> > installing new RPMs.
> >
> > So, here's the NEW question: is it possible to upgrade SL5 over the
> > top of RHEL5, or vice versa?
> I have no idea, considering neither is out, I really don't feel that's a
> fair question to ask.
>
> To be honest, we haven't even tried RHEL4 to SL4, although I'm sure some
> people have. In theory, you really should just need to install yum and
> yum-conf, do a yum upgrade, and it should do most the work. It won't
> uninstall all of redhat's rpms and re-install ours. But it should
> convert the basic things like /etc/redhat-release, and things like that.
>
> > Will it be possible to upgrade SL5 over the top of SL4?
>
> Yes, it should be.
> Right now I really really really wouldn't suggest it. Not only have no
> bugs been worked out, it hasn't even been looked at. Since names change
> and packages come and go before a release (I'm talking RHEL 5), it's not
> really worth our time to iron out any bugs except the installer seeing SL4.
> Just so you know, the installer does see S.L. 4 and gives you the option
> of upgrading if you wish.
>
> > Am I running into some bizarre behavior wired into
> > beta versions in general or RHEL5 beta 2 in particular, that I won't
> > see with a future SL4.4 -> SL5 upgrade?
>
> Yes.
> Because names change alot from alpha to beta to final release, you could
> do an upgrade, and have some package orphaned, not getting and update,
> because it was a different name in the alpha or beta.
>
> Troy
>
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