Upgrade from rh7.2 to 8.0

[jbk]

I went ahead and did it, everything is working now but I did have some glitches.

1) It didn't set my video up correctly.
2) My Samba users couln't access their shares.

My video setup consists of a 1meg Trident card and a HP 14" vga monitor. I think I
selected the nearest Trident model to mine and near was not good enough, so I
selected unkown card type and it works.

The Samba problem was a little more difficult to resolve. After a day of research
and reading Mailing lists and documentation I had not found a reference similar to
my problem.  I had a feeling though that I needed to recreate my smbpasswd file
which is what I did and it worked. Fortunately I have a small user base and I
could re-enter all their passwords, I can't imagine doing this with a large user
base if you couldn't afford down time while everyone created new passwords. I
subsequently upgraded the Samba version to the latest security release and had no
problems installing the rpm from the Samba site.

Well hope this benefits someone who's considering an upgrade themselves.

till next
    Jim Kelly-Rand

jbk wrote:

> Thats encouraging. I use my Linux box strictly as a samba server. I access it
> through my Nt workstation using cygwin and the X server port via ssh.
>
> till next
>     Jim Kelly-Rand
>
> Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:55 PM, jbk wrote:
> >
> >
> > I upgraded my home RedHat 7.3 machine to RedHat 8.0 about a week ago.  This
> > is the first time I have tried upgrading instead of re-installing since my
> > RedHat 4.2 -> 5.0 upgrade attempt went so poorly several years ago.  This
> > time the upgrade went perfectly.  I use my machine to read email
> > (Evolution), burn CDs (cdrdao, xcdroast, gtoaster), surf the web (Mozilla),
> > host a few dynamic web sites (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl DBI), listen to MP3s
> > (XMMS), download and burn (legal) music in SHN and FLAC format (gftp,
> > BitTorrent, shorten, flac), do some web programming (Komodo), download
> > pictures from my digital camera (USB mass storage driver), and edit said
> > pictures (Gimp).  I use KDE as my windowing environment.  After the upgrade,
> > all of this stuff worked with two minor exceptions:
> >
> > 1) I had to download and install an MP3 plugin for XMMS.  This is a known
> > issue due to licensing issues with MP3.  I found a link to an RPM of the
> > plugin on the XMMS web site, so fixing this took about 10 seconds.
> > 2) Before the upgrade, I was using Apache 1.3.27.  As part of the upgrade,
> > Apache was upgraded to 2.0.40.  There were some 1.3-specific directives in
> > my /etc/httpd/httpd.conf that caused Apache to not start.  I simply had to
> > copy my customizations (e.g. Virtual Server configuration) into
> > /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew, and then 'mv /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew
> > /etc/httpd/httpd.conf'.  After that Apache started up just fine and all of
> > my virtual (name-based) domains work like a champ.  Fixing this took about a
> > minute.
> >
> > Everything else worked perfectly after the upgrade.  My Evolution mail was
> > still there, my Mozilla settings were intact, my KDE customizations were
> > still there, my MySQL databases still worked, etc., etc.  The new Mozilla
> > and Evolution are purty, as are the fonts and icons in KDE3.  I was
> > extremely impressed with how smoothly the upgrade went.  Up til now, I have
> > been leery of x.0 releases from RedHat, and of upgrading in general, but
> > this experience has changed my mind.
> >
>
> >
>
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