On Tuesday 12 April 2005 08:52 am, Tim Holmes wrote: > Good Morning All!!! > > As we look toward the end of the academic year, I am beginning the > process of planning the IT projects for the summer. One of the major > projects that I have in mind is to convert all of our FC2 boxes to FC3 > -- I have about 6 FC2 servers in various roles around the school. What > I am wondering is if there is a proper upgrade path, or if it is better > to back up the data and start over from scratch? > > If a RELIABLE upgrade path is available, can someone please point me to > the docs etc (since this would be the first Linux upgrade that I have > done, a step by step cook book style doc would be real helpful) > > Thanks > > > > Tim Holmes > > IT Manager / Webmaster > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 One issue is if upgrading "over a wire'" is if there is a failure, be it power a scrambled download, missing archive etc. This can leave the system unbootable. With a cdrom you always can restart the process, be it upgrade or reinstall. -- John H Ludwig
