On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:44:40PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> "Adam F. Bogacki" wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Terry,
> >
> > I'll give up on that one.
>
> Because you didn't buy a boxed set, you don't have a product number to
> enter.
>
> You can upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0 in a number of ways.
> My preferred way (to do any upgrade) is to obtain a CD rom and run it
> from the CDrom. You can either buy this (cetustech or everythinglinux)
> or download the iso and burn a CD.
>
mount /mnt/cdrom
rpm -FUvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*
reboot
(What the "F" does is "Only upgrade if the package is already installed")
You also find that rpm will take an __age__ to generate the dependiences file.
> I've CC'd this to the Slug list so that others can tell you of their
> ways.
>
Pah. I still prefer Debian. :-)
> Someone may be able to tell you of problems to watch out for. I think
> there was a problem in the gcc.
gcc in RH7 is FUBAR.
2.96 snapshot of the 3.0 devel tree. Silly morons.
> Is there a relatively easy and painless way to
> > upgrade from RH6.2 to RH 7 ? I understood that could be done from
> > redhat.com, but first one had to register the product.
>
> Also check the slug list archives at slug or here for this topic.
>
>
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