[96104] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 6 short questions from a Redhat newbie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Little)
Sat Oct 24 01:57:10 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:57:23 +1000
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From: Nelson Little <nglit1@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <00d201bdfecc$5090eae0$0200a8c0@eric>
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Hi,
How do I upgrade RH5.0 to RH5.1 ? Ok I need to download the required RPMS
but what are they? Is there a list of RPMS I need to make my RH5 into RH5.1 ?
Thanks
Nelson
At 04:30 PM 10/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>>
>>--
>>Rob Furr (rsfurr@curie.uncg.edu) | Get the facts first.
>>Media Specialist | You can distort them later.
>>TechTools, UNCG | - Mark Twain.
>>
>
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