On Tue, 07 Dec 1999, 1stFlight ! wrote about, Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1:
> I was thinking about upgrading my RH 6.0 install (w/kernel 2.2.12 and
> October Gnome) and was wondering what issues I might run into? Thanks!
>
Well i upgraded one system here with redhat-6.1 i personaly have added many
programs and scripts on that machine so i was wiery about doing it, what i
found was that the upgrade said it was reinstalling 1200Meg of data to my
system, it took about 1 hour on a P200MMX with 64Mb of ram.
Now when i installed 6.0 i only installed 600Megs of data i remember that
perfectly, so it looks like Redhat not only installs new stuff, but
overwrites old stuff as well, and by that i mean oldstuff i personaly
installed by way of tar and not rpm.
However the upgrade had no ill effects and all my old scripts (which are
scattered) all over the place were left untouched.
The "best" thing i noticed was that the install makes backups of important
files in dirs like /etc and renames them something like *.back_rpm i have
forgotten the realname.
I did however do a backup first just in case.
So really you should suffer no ill effects, mileage differs a lot on what
ill effects are for others.
> Darryl
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