>> >> If you have, was it smooth sailing or tricky? Did it wipe out all your >> local configuration (/etc stuff), or preserve it? (Guess it depends on >> what RH considers "upgrade" to mean.) >> >> I have /home and /usr/local on a separate partition from /.
I did an upgrade from a not-very-old 7.2 installation. Went quite smoothly as I recall. But then I never had any problem with 7.2. >> >> I think I'm beating my head against a brick wall trying to stop X >> locking up my system by upgrading to XFree86 4.2.0 from RH 7.3. Maybe >> it's easier to upgrade the whole system? >> >> Or even, to wait a little longer till 7.4 is released. I would probably wait - everyone seems to be raving about 7.4 >> >> But it really rankles that my Linux machine crashes quite reliably, and >> my wife's old Windows 95 system is *in comparison* quite robust. It's hell when life refuses to follow the script! -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
