At 08:44 AM 22/11/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Mario da Costa spewed into the ether:
> >Earlier in the day I sent a mail about my difficulty in loading RH
> >6.1/6.2 I didn't get any response probably coz my mail was vague. I
> >think I should try to re-install RH6.0 . If that works then there is
>Give the mail some time to reach the members, we do have jobs/other
>work too.
>Anyway, from your mail, you have a 486 CPU, and RHL 6.1/6.2 is not
>compiled for the older processors (min 586).
>So you would not be able to upgrade the entire distribution.
You sure? AFAIK, only Mandrake has Pentium specific packages.
>Yes, you can do partial upgrades. Upgrading just the compiler is possible.
>rpm -U (pr rpm -F) will do the trick. man rpm for details.
If RH6 works for you then this is probably the way to go. However, if you
have to do a reinstall then go for RH6.2 directly... it's less buggy.
Biju
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