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Re: 6 short questions from a Redhat newbie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Mulhearn)
Mon Oct 26 07:56:51 1998
From: "Andy Mulhearn" <Andy_Mulhearn@cwb.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:00:53 +0000
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One could also use autorpm and point it at a RedHat 5.1 directory, then at
an updates directory. This would perform the updates to any installed
packages though I'm not so sure how it would work with any new
dependancies, i.e. where the new version of a package needs something that
is not currently installed.
Andy
On 24/10/98 19:07:34 Eric Bohn wrote:
>Look for a directory called "RedHat" on Redhat's ftp site or a close
mirror
>site. This base directory contains all the files to be used in the
>installation process. You could compare the contents of these directories
>for 5.0 and 5.1 to determine which RPMS you need to download, but I just
>downloaded all of them.
>
>- Eric
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nelson Little <nglit1@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au>
>To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
>Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 12:58 AM
>Subject: Re: 6 short questions from a Redhat newbie
>
>
>>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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