Red Hat 8 to 9 upgrade

[Gro$$]

I've read a lot of threads about people upgrading to Red Hat 9 from 7.3 and 8 and heard of clean installs and easy upgrades. So, before I upgrade to 9 from 8, I wondering, anyone have any advice who has done this and if there is anything I should look out for. I have a lot of data, some gigs worth, that I would like to save. So, how can I upgrade without losing it? Thanks for all the help.

[serz]

I suggest you to copy all your configuration files such as httpd.conf, XF86Config and others you want, just that. All the important files that maybe redhat9 overwrites, I don't know.

[Icarus]

I backed up all the data I wanted to keep incase the 8 -> 9 upgrade blew up...but no worries, everything started just fine (had to re-install the nVidia drivers, but that was expected and preped for)

If you can't back it up anywhere, take the plunge...unless you keep your data in /boot nothing will get over written, just select upgrade and go :)

[markdog12]

i didn't back anything up and all my data and settings were retained. Just had to re-install the nvidia driver, which is now simplified even further with their new unified driver

[redhat81]

I had some problems with PHP (I complied from source) but I was able to sort it out somehow.

[Gro$$]

OK well I poped the first cd for Red Hat 9 in and it asked if I wanted to run the autorun. I hit yes and it asked for my root password. I entered it and then it gave me a box saying:

"" disk 1 needed to install packages
Insert the disk and press OK

and the options are cancle and ok. So do I have to reboot or what? This is making me feel really dumb but whatever.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Gro$$
So do I have to reboot or what? This is making me feel really dumb but whatever. Don't worry, we won't hold it against you :)

Best way to upgrate to a new version is to reboot and boot off the first CD, just make sure your BIOS is set to boot off the CD drive.

[Gro$$]

OK so the media check failed both disks one and two. so should I redownload them or just reburn them???

[serz]

Did you check the MD5 checksum? Checking that you will know if the file was download without any problems.

[Gro$$]

No I didn't. What is that and how do I check it?

[serz]

You have to get a MD5SUM checker.
http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=md5&tg=dl-20&search=+Go%21+

If you compare it with your file and you get the same MD5SUM, then the file it's ok.

[Gro$$]

well that sounds good but all the applications from that link are for windows. anyone else got a place where I can download this MD5 sum checker?

[dstammer]

The upgrade went perfectly it seems. I did back up what I wanted and cleaned up some stuff first. RH9 seems to have retained all my config stuff from RH8 - even my bookmarks in Galeon / Mozilla are still there! All the data that I left in my home directory is there as well. Great job redhat!!

Hope your upgrade goes as well as mine.
Cheers.

[red_over_blue]

anyone else got a place where I can download this MD5 sum checker?

It's probably already on your system:


john@u2 ~ $ which md5sum
/usr/bin/md5sum
john@u2 ~ $

[psigourney]

Is RH9 much better than RH8?

[serz]

Originally posted by psigourney
Is RH9 much better than RH8?

It has good/bad things.

[psigourney]

Originally posted by serz
It has good/bad things.
Like what?

[redhat81]

I've noticed that when first booted, many applications on RedHat 9 take a long time to load. After that, they load quite quickly. Don't know if it's my slow laptop hard drive that takes a while to shadow to RAM, though.

[Gro$$]

Originally posted by serz
If you compare it with your file and you get the same MD5SUM, then the file it's ok.

Ok so I have it on my system. How to I check the file?? :confused:

[Resident_Geek]

Gro$$, I had a similar problem with installing extra packages to Red Hat 8.0. Do you have two cdrom drives? If so, make SURE you're putting it in /mnt/cdrom and not cdrom1. It took me 20 minutes of poking around before I figured that out. I never did figure out how to get my other drive to be /mnt/cdrom1, but it's probably jsut a setting on automount somewhere.

[bs_texas]

Originally posted by serz
You have to get a MD5SUM checker.
http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=md5&tg=dl-20&search=+Go%21+

If you compare it with your file and you get the same MD5SUM, then the file it's ok.

Uh... I checked out this page. All of the programs there require Windows. There's not a Linux program on the page. :confused:

Edited: Oops. Ok, there's one Linux program on the second page:

IglooFTP Pro 1.2.1
Try a full-featured graphical FTP client.
OS: Linux
File Size: 1.3MB
License: Free to try, $30 to buy

[Gro$$]

Originally posted by bs_2003
Edited: Oops. Ok, there's one Linux program on the second page:

IglooFTP Pro 1.2.1
Try a full-featured graphical FTP client.
OS: Linux
File Size: 1.3MB
License: Free to try, $30 to buy

Thanks but I don't see how a graphical FTP client is in anyway related to MD5 check sum.... Thats why I said that.

[bs_texas]

Originally posted by Gro$$
Thanks but I don't see how a graphical FTP client is in anyway related to MD5 check sum.... Thats why I said that.

Ok, sorry, but that's exactly what I was trying to imply also. I've never used the md5sum thing so I was hoping to find some useful info on that page as well, and, of course, there wasn't any, for linux.

(In my post I said that there were no linux programs on the page, but there was a linux program on the second page -- which wasn't related to md5sum stuff.)

Sorry for the confusion.

:)

Also, I didn't notice your previous post about that page containing all windows programs. Sorry for the redundancy. :)

[serz]

Yea, sorry..I posted one for Windows. But there's a program called "md5sum", I know it comes with Redhat.

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=md5sum&section=projects&x=0&y=0
Ok, hope that link helps you.

[Suramya]

Originally posted by Gro$$
OK so the media check failed both disks one and two. so should I redownload them or just reburn them???

Try going ahead with the install. I had the same issue but when I hit continue (I had nothing better to do while waiting for the ISO to finish downloading again) , the install completed without any problems.

Hope this helps

- Sur

[wokoglopulator]

Originally posted by psigourney
Is RH9 much better than RH8?

I upgraded this evening. No real problems have been encountered, and the install was smooth. I did have to reinstall apt-get and synaptic.

One oddity that I have found in Gnome is that Alt-F2 (the key combination to launch an application) pops up but it doesn't default to the text input area. That make one click or do a series (4) of shift-TABs to get into the area for input. Anyone else who uses rh9 get that anomaly as well?

My first tweak will be to shed the ripple effect that they added when clicking an icon. Strange and useless addition.