[ale] Fedora and RHN?

[Geoffrey]

walter Sams wrote:
> I am new this list and am looking for some pointers and possibly some
> physical assistance with migrating my RH9 network to another
> distribution, most likely Mandrake 9.2.

I've used both Mandrake and SuSE.  You might consider SuSE.  Both are 
rpm based as is RH.

> If someone has converted RH to Mandrake I would appreciate insight as to
> how complicated it might be.

What's your definition of convert?  I don't think you'll find that you 
can easily 'convert' a running RH to Mandrake.  About the best solution 
is to make your box a dual boot by installing Mandrake along side your 
existing RH.  Then cycle through a couple of reboots from one to the 
other in order to configure the Mandrake like the RH.

If this is a production env, then that's not a likely solution.  What 
kind of down time can you afford?

> If someone is very confident of their skills and wants to discuss
> handling this upgrade/changeover for me, please email me directly, as I
> would prefer to have a person more knowledgable than myself do the
> changeover. I use 2 servers and 4 clients.

I've done a few installs, pretty confident, some would say arrogant. ;) 
  What are the boxes used for?  The clients would likely be pretty 
quick, as long as you're not using them for too esoteric stuff.  What 
kind of downtime can you afford?

The dual boot is a reasonable conversion solution, if you've got the 
disk space and can afford the downtime.  If you don't have the spare 
disk space, you can purchase an extra drive, do the first install on it, 
and then move the old drive to the next box, install, and on down the list.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

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