Warning, Warning, Will Robinson: I had (eh-hem) some fun in installing RH on my Vaio: the floppy drive is USB, and I had to install off of network or CD-ROM, both of which would be accessed via PCMICA. HOWEVER, since the floppy's USB, while I could boot from it in "legacy" mode, it wouldn't recognize the PCMCIA floppy to save my life. Don't recall what my final resolution was (I was doing a fresh install), but in your case, I'd copy the ISO's locally, and do a "hard drive" install.
Good luck! -Ken On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > First, I'd like to express my amazement that you actually got Linux to > run on a Viao at all ;-) In order to upgrade it, I would suggest > using RedHat's upgrade path. Make a boot disk before doing anything, > then just boot off of the latest/greatest CD and select upgrade > instead of install. I believe that there is also some sort of central > repository (up2date, I think) that will update your system for you. > You could, if you feel like being creative, grab everything from their > FTP site and `rpm -Uvh *`, but that could cause a few problems. > > Either that, or you could install Debian and do an `apt-get > dist-upgrade` ;-) > > C-Ya, > Kenny > "Joshua S. Freeman" wrote: > > > > i have an old vaio laptop with VA 'enhanced' Redhat linux 6.2 with kernel > > 2.2.19 and 2.2.18 on it... > > > > It has apache, PHP and postgres on it but not MySQL... > > > > I want to update it. > > > > i want to use it for continuing my learning of PHP/MySQL and perl.. etc... > > > > What's the most painless way to give it a new kernel and a new version of > > straight RedHat latest/greatest? > > > > I'm basically looking for a path to follow that will get me updated but > > which minimizes the risk of me accidentally blowing away the OS or locking > > myself out... > > > > I know just enough about these things to be dangerous... mainly to myself. > > > > Any advice appreciated! > > > > TIA, > > > > j. > > > > ***************************************************************** > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > > ***************************************************************** > > -- > --------------------------------------------------- > Kenneth E. Lussier > Geek by nature, Linux by choice > PGP KeyID C0D2BA57 > Public key > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC0D2BA57 > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** > > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
