[olug] Red Hat upgrade question

[Vincent]

In that case, you may want to consider building one system and duplicating
the disks.  You can use either dd or the newest versions of Ghost which
recognize and resize ext2 partitions.  I have over 130 production Linux
systems (most are still running RH 6.2) and I don't do a fresh install every
time a disk dies or I add a new system.  I would never get any real work
done if I had to install and configure every system they way I need it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Walter" <waltern at iivip.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Red Hat upgrade question


I still use Red Hat 6.2 quite extensively, but I use Linux in a different
context than most of the members of this list I imagine.

I'm a sysadmin for a company that has been phasing out Unixware 2.X.X in our
servers and products and replacing it with Red Hat.  Because of driver
availability and development cycle time for products,  we have to pick an
O/S and version and stick with it for several years at a time.  We last
standardized 9 months ago, on Red Hat 6.2.  Now our telephony products will
probably be shipping with Red Hat 6.2 for the next few years :)

The moral of the story is that in the corporate world there a lot of people
who aren't using the latest and greatest (and possibly unstable or quirky)
versions of Linux.

Nick Walter
Interact Incorporated

----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Roberson
  To: olug at bstc.net
  Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:28 PM
  Subject: Re: [olug] Red Hat upgrade question


  > I wasn't able to find a modules image.  I looked on the ftp site that I
plan on using, and also on my current 6.2 cd.  Neither had the image that >
you mentioned.  The closet that I came was a driver.img.  Same thing?

  yes, checkout the README in that same directory. redhat 6.2 is rather old,
why may I ask are you using it?

    >> have you tried to autodetect the nic?
    > No I have not.  How do I do that?
  dont go into "expert" mode and It will do it for you automatically




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