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Re: Upgrading to Redhat 4.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Wed Oct 30 10:31:16 1996

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:22:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Ryshpan <jon@sirius.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610301221.EAA23056@mail1.sirius.com>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> Unfortunately, there are no instructions for upgrading.  The 3.0.3
> archove had a nice little Perl script to upgrade, but this seems to 
> be missing.  Maybe rpm has a function for this, but my version doesn't
> seem to be able to upgrade anything but a single package.

You need to make a boot disk and use that to start your system. After about
five steps, the install will ask you if you want to install or upgrade your
system.

Erik

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