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Re: 6 short questions from a Redhat newbie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Bohn)
Fri Oct 23 17:26:23 1998
From: "Eric Bohn" <ebohn@apci.net>
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:30:10 -0500
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Download all the required 5.1 RPMS files and install from your hard drive.
- Eric
-----Original Message-----
>Speaking of doing a full upgrade: How *do* you do a full upgrade over
>FTP? I kind of doubt the ol' boot-and-supplimentary floppy images would
>be of use here, as they wouldn't support my ethernet card, and I'm at a
>bit of a loss as to where to look for instructions. (I bought the blue
>box 5.0 CD, and have to rebuild a machine that crashed *hard* a little
>while ago (it stops after reaching the initalizing-random-number-generator
>bit in the startup sequence, and I can't figure out why. The only thing
>I did before it crashed was comment out the getty line in inittab, and
>after it started locking up, I put getty back in. Still locks up. But I
>digress.) and, as long as I'm reinstalling, I'd like to get a most-recent
>version install ... but I dunno how.)
>
>And if the above paragraph actually parses in English, I'll be amazed.
>
>--
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>
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