Upgrade from Red Hat Linux 7.3 (!!!)

Fenice · Unread post by **Fenice** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:07 pm

Hello there -

I found myself with two old RH 7.3 and a RH 8.0 server in my hands, and I wanted to ask you what would you suggest me for a system upgrade.

Is a full re-imaging of the servers the only solution I have, or are there realistic chances of doing a system upgrade to any existing distro? And what tips can you give me in case of a system upgrade?

Thanks!

Unread post by **scott** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:03 pm

Re-imaging is your only option here.

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:48 pm

hi scott,

ive a similar question too,

my old box (1+1) runnin on rh9/plesk 7.5.1
now its time to switch to a new one. is the 1+1 standard fc6 image ok?
they have still no centos image

thanks

way

Unread post by **scott** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:56 pm

They dont, but I do

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/aooi |sh

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:56 am

scott wrote:They dont, but I do

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/aooi |sh

hehe, real nice scott

ill give it a shot

just one more question...
ive looked into the install file, i understand (or not) that after the install ive a clean, well partitioned min. centos and yum on my box.
ive to backup my psa.key

then?
install the whole psa via atomic?
the key will work with this install? i remember some years ago i had real troubles with my psa-key when i installed a image this NOT commin with psa included.

/edit: WORK psa 8.1 with centos5?

sorry for my bad english

way

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:18 am

CentOS 5 support was added in Plesk 8.2.

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:23 am

breun wrote:CentOS 5 support was added in Plesk 8.2.

thx, is there a way to install the whole psa 8.1 via atomic? 1+1 deliver 8.1 and i think the key will not work with 8.2

thanks again

way

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:12 am

Plesk 8 keys will also work on 8.1 and 8.2.

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:36 pm

script runnin (sloooow

)

hmm... the script use the i386 image. any toughts why dont the x86_64?

and what mean

60% [=======================> ] 395,207,368 230K/s eta 30m 1s RAID1 conf printout:
--- wd:2 rd:2
disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda7
disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb7
62% [========================> ] 411,123,472 168K/s eta 27m 47sRAID1 conf printout:
--- wd:2 rd:2
disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda6
disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb6
65% [=========================> ] 426,871,920 206K/s eta 25m 40sRAID1 conf printout:
--- wd:2 rd:2
disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda5
disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb5
69% [==========================> ] 454,358,608 227K/s eta 22m 15s

during the download?

thx

way

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:57 pm

k, the script dont work on the 1&1 Root-Server XL64

100%[=======================================>] 655,984,640 161K/s in 69m 18s

00:55:41 (154 KB/s) - `CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-1of6.iso' saved [655984640/655984640]

Done.
Error: Cannot find the CentOS server image
[root@xxxxxxxxx ~]#

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:28 pm

Disk going bad? Catch me on IM to debug.

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:32 pm

cant send you anything at aim

after a short break do the following

reinitialize the box with a 64bit system (fc6 64)
then rerun the script and now downloadin the x86_64 image

had reinit first to a minimum fc6 (think non64). the script fail on suse 10.1 (the original image delivered)

the raid-gliches are gone too

still downloadin...

thx

way

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:06 pm

ok, no chance.

think ive to stay with fc6

after downloading the images...

02:52:07 (394 KB/s) - `CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-2of7.iso' saved [665100288/665100288]

Done.
Setting up installer kernel: Done
ks path is hd:sda2/ks-1and1x86_64.cfg

and no more... hangs 15 mins now. top say lilo grab one cpu at 100%

any hints?

Waylander · Unread post by **Waylander** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:27 pm

the end...

after a reboot, the box is dead...
have to reinit to fc6 again

1+1 xl-server owners, save your time

thx for the assistance

way

/edit: how long will fc6 supported? any idea?
thx

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:36 pm

Ive done 5 installs on fc6 at 1and1 since sunday, I can confirm that it works just fine on both the single and dual cpu boxes. What does the serial console say?

As I mentioned before on the main page (you do read that right?

) there are some outstanding issues with CentOS 5 on some network hardware at 1and1. Theres nothing I can do about that. Ive run into it at least once so far (out of 100 or so).