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I'd appreciate whatever guidance I might get to accomplish this upgrade with
minimal grief.  My company has a firewall/gateway running RH 5.0.  It mostly
works but badly needs security patches and tools updates.  "Upgrade" seems
a prudent approach.

 I've inherited support and want to upgrade to RH 6.0  (I have a personal copy
of 6.0 and zero budget
so I'll use what I've got.)  Here are some questions.  Please be inventive about
your
advice and comments, but try to avoid spamming or other b.s. remarks.

Q1:  How do I discover all of the system parts that I really should backup?

Q2:  After the 6.0 clean install, what system parts are "restore" candidates vs.
new config templates?

Q3:  What are recommendations for partition sizes as a percent of drive size?

Q4:  How much swap space compared to physical RAM size (or other rule of thumb)?

Q5:  Is there some way to succeed at an X-config without spending days of
tinkering?

~~~ Dan *<;-}( )=//

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Quote:>I'd appreciate whatever guidance I might get to accomplish this upgrade
>with minimal grief.  My company has a firewall/gateway running RH 5.0.
>It mostly works but badly needs security patches and tools updates.
>"Upgrade" seems a prudent approach.

>I've inherited support and want to upgrade to RH 6.0  (I have a
>personal copy of 6.0 and zero budget so I'll use what I've got.)  Here
>are some questions.  Please be inventive about your advice and
>comments, but try to avoid spamming or other b.s. remarks.

>Q1:  How do I discover all of the system parts that I really should
>backup?

Just depends...I would think /etc/ and /home/ would be good candidates.

Quote:>Q2:  After the 6.0 clean install, what system parts are "restore"
>candidates vs.  new config templates?

I'd be careful with this. There are some major changes and some config
files are different enough that I'd at least be cautious. What you might
want to do is have the old configs handy so you can compare with the
new, then edit the new ones as needed.

Quote:>Q3:  What are recommendations for partition sizes as a percent of drive
>size?

I don't think this changes much. /usr might be proportionately somewhat
larger. I never really checked with 6.0, but 6.0->6.1 my /usr was 200M
larger. Of course, to an extent this depends on packages installed and
what the installer does to satisfy failed dependencies.

Quote:>Q4:  How much swap space compared to physical RAM size (or other rule
>of thumb)?

Depends totally on installed RAM and what you are doing (ie how memory
intensive). If unsure, I'd opt for 128M.

Quote:>Q5:  Is there some way to succeed at an X-config without spending days
>of tinkering?

Just depends...I like XF86Setup, always works for me.

PS -- Be sure to do all relevant updates right away!

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Maybe I've never mastered getting all of the video hardware details that I need.

Do you have suggestions (new hardware is not an option <grin>)?

~~~ Dan 0:-D

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The Tenth Amendment ... its not only a good idea, its the law!
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And I get the updates from the redhat site ... or is there a better source ?

~~~ Dan 0:-D

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The Tenth Amendment ... its not only a good idea, its the law!
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.htm...

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