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upgrade or reinstall



Hi everyone,

My server at school is running RedHat 5.1. I posted some time ago that X
is no longer working (Yes, I know, I shouldn't be running X on a server
machine, but my tape backup and UPS both require X to make configuration
anything less than a complete hassle). Other than that, the server is
running fine. The only reboots I've had have come when something having
to do with nfs died and I couldn't mount anything off of the server. I
have a feeling a more experienced admin probably could have restarting
it properly and avoided the reboot.

I'd like to upgrade to RH5.2, but I'm wondering if I should do the
upgrade procedure or do a full reinstall (preserving /home and after
backing up /etc of course). I'm perfectly happy with the partition
scheme as currently implemented (see below).

[wilson@thales wilson]$ df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1              77742   41549    32179     56%   /
/dev/sda11           1686362  528322  1070889     33%   /home
/dev/sda7             155517     399   147088      0%   /tmp
/dev/sda8            1018298  391697   573990     41%   /usr
/dev/sda9             746387  137078   570755     19%  
/usr/local/windows
/dev/sda10            303251   83666   203924     29%   /usr/src
/dev/sda6             202182   15411   176331      8%   /var

What would you guys recommend? Am I likely to resurrect X by doing the
upgrade?

Thanks,
Tim

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