On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re: RE : That XF86:
> Hey Richard,
> Thanx for the instructions. A further question, I have the manual and CD for
> R.H. 6.0, should I install it ? Since I bought the 5.2 first, and have never
> managed to get it installed and configured, it is the one that I have continued
> to struggle against. In your opinion, would I be better off installing the 6.0
> and forgetting the 5.2? I am using fvwm, is that a bad thing? Would my life be
> easier if I abandoned 5.2 and went with 6.0? Would all these travails turn to
> sweetness and light?
Well i'm not going to say an outright yes, however its what you make of what
you have. Thesedays i seem to answer with my opinions, so i will do the same
here. I certanly would install 6.0 but on the otherhand why not get
Redhat-6.1 if thats an option.
Redhat 6.0 has gnome, kde and afterstep as well as fvwm, it is a lot eaier
to install or thats what i found, (6.1) is even easier.
With the advise Greg gave you + 6.0 you should be able to get more out of
your computer.
If you decide to install 6.0 or 6.1 if it is possable, ie, you have
partitioned your H/D with multiple partitions, you could then leave 5.2
where it is and install 6.0 or 6.1 on another partition(s). Then after
installing you can make lilo boot either 5.2 or the new version, + you save
all you old config files, some of which will be good referances for you,
some will not be suited anymore as there are thoses which change per
distribution.
If you cant do the above, then i would advise spliting up the hard disk
when installing the new version, i think the best thing to do is give an
example from my system here, there are of course other ways of doing
things, i hope others will express there thoughts as well.
I am lucky in the sence that i have a lot of room, i have 2 H/D's
partitioned as follows.
/dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 65 256 1542240 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 257 261 40162+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 262 523 2104515 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 262 325 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 326 523 1590403+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 192 1542208+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 * 193 384 1542240 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 385 512 1028160 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 513 1048 4305420 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 513 704 1542208+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 705 896 1542208+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 897 1048 1220908+ 83 Linux
To let you see how there are mounted, fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /hdA6 ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /usr/src ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb2 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb3 /spare1 ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /spare2 ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /spare3 ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /source ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floopy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /cdwrite iso9660 noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
Now when i install another distribution i define 2 partitions.
1 mounted under "/" normaly around 500 meg.
2 mounted under /usr
3 the swap stays the same, all distros will recocnise the swap partition,
(as well as all the other of course) and it will use the swap if you answer
with yes when asked.
Another thing that i do is keep a permanet /home directory, that stays the
same for all distro's, thats handy when i boot the machine and get local
users logging in they can then log in with there old accounts, no data is
lost.
To achive that all i do is delete the whole /home directory on the new
install and mount the old disk partition as /home, but normaly on en end
user machine that is not really nessasary.
I do the same with /usr/local/src/ and /usr/src/ of course i copy the
contents of those 2 dirs, to the respective old partitions first, being
carefull with executables not to overwrite old ones in the process,
luckily there are not many in those dirs.
Of course when doing it this way, the same passwd file and other conf files
are used, it saves having to configure a new distribution from the word go
to finish. It takes me about 2 hous from start to finish then i have
exachtly the same system as i had before. But i have been doing that for a
long time now so i know exachtly what to do.
I think from the files included above you and others will see how its all
done, if not let me know.
> CR
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> There is nothing so permanant as a " Temporary Measure "
> taken by the Government.
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Regards Richard
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