On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 18:25 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
The dirty little secret, that nobody wants to talk about, is
that an upgrade codepath is rarely used in RHEL. Nearly all RHEL
installs, in the field, are fresh installs.
The SOP for enterprise-y Linux seats is to clone pre-built images.
Servers typically have small hard drives, with just the OS image, and
mount all the storage off the network/SAN.
I'm not surprised, I do something similar.
Either pull out the HDD, make a new install, replace the HDD and pull
the old data from it onto the new HDD, and put the old HDD on the shelf
as the backup.
Or, a new install goes onto a new computer. By the time I get around to
doing an install, the newer OS is too bloated for the old hardware,
being too slow or simply impossible to run, and an upgrade becomes a
downgrade. This has been my experience with Linux and Windows.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
read messages from the public lists.