Upgrade from RH9 to Fedora Core 2

[Jason Lee]

Has anyone had any success in updating their RH9 servers to Fedora Core2 ?

It seems simple enough to upgrade following this tutorial....

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~vschmidt/notes/redhat2fedora/

But I don't know how it will effect plesk.

Update Jan 29, 2005
I'm cloning my server so I can work on upgrading it to FC2 under VMware. I will let everyone know my progress

[nos]

if you update to fc you will need to upgrade your plesk to the os . IF YOU DONT you will break the updater and possibly several other functions . you have been warned .

[eWebtricity]

We were going to order new ROOT III servers and slowly migrate our customers/domains to them one server at a time. Seems like a perpetual process, we hope to automate a script once we work the kinks out on the first few manually.

[Jason Lee]

So far I'm having trouble with some dependencies....

.Package php needs libpspell-modules.so.1, this is not available.
Package php needs libpspell.so.4, this is not available.
Package php needs httpd-mmn = 20020628, this is not available.
Package psa needs libcom_err.so.3, this is not available.
Package php needs libcom_err.so.3, this is not available.
Package php-imap needs libcom_err.so.3, this is not available.


my /etc/yum.conf is as follows....

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-core
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

# THIS CHANNEL CONTAINS MY PSA COMPATIBLE RPMS (php, mysql, qmail-scanner, etc)
[atomic]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - Atomic PSA-Compatible RPMS
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/art/2/
baseurl=http://archive.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/art/2/
baseurl=http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/art/2/
exclude=spamassassin*

[app-vault]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - App Vault RPMS
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/app-vault/
baseurl=http://archive.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/app-vault/
baseurl=http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/app-vault/

[psa-7.5]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - SW-Soft PSA 7.5 RPMS
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/psa-7.5/2/
baseurl=http://archive.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/psa-7.5/2/
baseurl=http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/atomic/psa-7.5/2/

[base]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - Base OS RPMS mirror
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/3rd-party/base/2/

[updates]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - OS Update RPMS mirror
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/3rd-party/updates/2/


I've posted my problem to ART's forums http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148 hopefully I'll be able to solve this problem.

Update:
I've been working on this under VMware on my desktop and I've finally gotten down to one dependency problem by removing php php-mbstring php-imap using rpm -e --nodeps and then reinstalling them via yum.

Now I just have to solve the dependency....

Resolving dependencies
.Package psa needs libcom_err.so.3, this is not available.


And I think this is being caused because psa is of the same version as psa for FC2 and yum won't install the FC2 version because it isn't newer.

Another Update:
I had to backup the psa database. Delete the database, uninstall psa using yum remove psa and then upgrade the testserver using yum upgrade. After all the upgrades are complete (excluding the kernel) I reinstalled psa using the plesk autoinstaller and then deleted the psa database that was created on install and replaced it with the backed up version that I created earlier. I then upgraded ther kernel to 2.6.10 using the 1and1 kernel provided and everything seems to work fine.

[Jason Lee]

Well I've done some more testing and everything looks good. I've scheduled an upgrade of one of my servers for Thursday morning @ 1AM CST I'll let everyone know how it goes.

[Jason Lee]

Could someone with a FC2 1and1 root server post your /etc/lilo.conf file so I can compare it to mine. Also can you tell me what version of lilo you have installed.

Thanks,

[Wythrol]

Hope this is of some help to you. This is a UK 1&1 Rootserver running FC2.
Lilo Version 22.5.8



boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda1

install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
timeout=60
prompt
lba32

read-only

default=lxser

serial=0,57600n8
append="console=ttyS0,57600 console=tty0 panic=30"

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=lxser
append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600 panic=30"

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=lx

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521
label=linux-up
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.521smp.img