[LON-CAPA-admin] updating Fedora Core

Paul Omernik paul.omernik at ndsu.edu
Thu Aug 27 17:37:19 EDT 2009


I second Gerd's recommendation of switching to CentOS.  I switched our two
access servers from FC6 and 7 to CentOS 5.3 and couldn't be happier.

Paul

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Gerd Kortemeyer <korte at lite.msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am afraid it's pretty much hopeless to update from Fedora Core 6 to Core
> 10.
>
> You want to back up your /home as well as relevant config files from /etc
> elsewhere, and install the machine from scratch. See
> http://www.lon-capa.org/hardwareupgrade.html for a list of relevant files
> - the instructions themselves are of course irrelevant, as you are not
> changing hardware and don't have two servers running in parallel.
>
> I would recommend to make the jump to CentOS - the Fedora stuff is too
> flaky for a server.
>
> - Gerd.
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:00 PM, rob mock wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>>
>> I tried updating to Fedora Core 10, and am having trouble extrapolating
>> from the FC6 instructions on the fedoracoreupdate.html page.
>>
>> Is there something more recent out there with updated instructions out
>> there?
>> Thanks,
>>  rob
>>
>
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