[ILUG] Changing over from RH x to Fedora

[Conor Wynne]

> I have a RH 7.1 server running apache, DNS, sendmail...
> I haven't seen Fedora yet. Is it feasible to move everything over to a
> server running Fedora. Anybody done something like it yet and if so what
> to watch out for?

An upgrade or a fresh install?
I moved from rh9 to fedora, actually changed machine three times in a
month, the kids were messing with my uptime. Gotta beat microsoft :--)

Since there are a lot of differences between rh7.1 and fedora, gcc
different, likely differences in sendmail & bind - but not sure ,
definitely differences in apache, fedora uses apache2.

I would...

1. setup a spare box,
2. tar up all your configs,
3. install fedora
4. restore the configs & try to restart the "server".
5. See what runs and what fails.

If all goes well, great.

Otherwise keep 7.1 running, install fedora on a spare box and make a
gentle move. Thats what I did at home so as not to miss any mails.

Once I had fedora all patched and duplicate services running, I simply had
to change my routers config to point to the fedora box instead of the rh9
one, minimim "outage".

regards
Conor.
Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande.