Re: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1

2001-09-30 Thread Mark Weaver
well...sadly the entire process was a bust. i half thought it might turn out that way, but I had to try. the battle was fought hard and valiantly, but alas...there was no hope. this ole machine will be running nothing higher then 7.2 for the rest of it's life. thats ok though cause that gives

RE: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1

2001-09-30 Thread Franki
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1 well...sadly the entire process was a bust. i half thought it might turn out that way, but I had to try. the battle was fought hard and valiantly, but alas...there was no hope. this ole machine will be running nothing higher

Re: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1

2001-09-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Franki wrote: Just curious about a couple of things... Where did you get the RPM's in the howto from? and at what stage did the upgrade fail rgds Frank Frank, some of the packages i got from my 8.0 disks. In fact, most of them came from there. The howto was posted here on

Re: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1

2001-09-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Love it! thanks a ton. I'll give it a shot and let you know how i make out with it. not to worry cause i've got all my data backed up nightly and if it breaks i've got everything i need to reinstall. Texstar wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2001 06:32 am, you wrote: Hi List, For the past

Re: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1

2001-09-29 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:26, you wrote: Franki wrote: speaking as someone who has done this, I give you this message... DON'T !!! you will be successful at installing it, and you will be able to run software written for it, but some or alot of your old software will break,, I had