Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations Chris Miller on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Red Hat 6.1 install

Status
Not open for further replies.
nyck

nyck

Technical User
Mar 10, 2004
447
GB
Hello,

I have a Dell R910 which is currently running Red Hat Enterprise 5.7 and I wish to upgrade it to be running 6.1. Can I perfrom an upgrade from the install media or is it better off perfroming a fresh install?

Cheers

Nick
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
Nick,

RHEL6 is a huge departure from RHEL5. Lots has changed. So you would have to do a fresh install.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
The prefered way in most cases is to update/upgrade, but in this case I tend to agree with ZaSter. One of the major changes in this version is to the file system itself. An upgrade would not include this or any apps that are dependent on the new file system.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Hello,

So a fresh install sounds like the route to go. Have they improved the logical volume setup during the install as I always found this very clunky with version 5?

Cheers

Nick
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

bhuv560
  • Locked
  • Question
Postfix Installation on EC2 AWS Linux
Replies
0
Views
126
bhuv560
bhuv560
msk69
  • Locked
  • Question
RHEL 7 installation error
Replies
1
Views
193
msk69
msk69
SamBones
  • Locked
  • Question
Linux 7 Installation Failures 1
Replies
3
Views
169
SamBones
SamBones
Tosu
  • Locked
  • Question
hi .. i have installed linux sle
Replies
1
Views
144
ChrisHirst
ChrisHirst
kurio71
  • Locked
  • Question
Favicons not Working after Redirection 1
Replies
7
Views
218
ChrisHirst
ChrisHirst

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top