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Upgrade advice

993195Apr 10 2013 — edited Apr 10 2013

Hello,

I am a newer hire with a company to help with the Oracle migration to new hardware. I have very limited Linux experience from an administration standpoint but they have added that to my responsibilities. We are on RH 5.8 and 10.2.0.5 currently. We would like to get to 6.4 and 11.2.0.3 on current test/production then switch over to new hardware. Our space is limited on our current hardware so we cannot keep duplicate installs with data on our systems.

I was reading the Red Hat documentation and they do not support full version changes, however, they do offer the upgrade option. What I would like to do is a Linux upgrade, test, Oracle upgrade, test. Can anyone provide feedback on possible issues with upgrading Linux instead of a fresh install? It sounds like what RH wants is a clean install of RH6, install Oracle, import data and setup again. RH and Oracle are the only software installed on our servers. I believe at my old company we did an upgrade (5.x to 6.x) of Linux without issue.

Thanks

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