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Re: RHL4.2 -> RHL5.2 - Experiences?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 10 16:26:09 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:58:25 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> with RHL 5.2 out, I might at last consider upgrading from my RHL 4.2 system.
> But before doing so, I'd be interested to know if anybody out there did so
> already and what experiences he/she had with the upgrade.
> I'm still wondering whether it would be worthwhile doing a complete
> re-install or whether I should go the upgrade route.
> My hardware setup is pretty much standard (P133/96MB/NCR810 SCSI with IBM
> DCAS 2.1GB + Quantum 240MB/Conner 540MB EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM/OPTi 831
> Soundcard/PCI 1MB SVGA card), so I don't expect any issues there.
>
> Any takers?
If you have an umbrella it won't rain, so do a nice backup :-).
Duplicating the hard drive is the nicest, if you can.
Then do the upgrade. You will need to snip some loose threads,
but no disaster should happen. Going from 5.1 to 5.2 was smooth
for me. I had to remove .bash_profile and some windowmanager
prefs dotfiles to make everything work perfectly - but that's all.
sendmail, fetchmail, dns, Netscape, ethernet, diald, ppp, slip,
and everything else just kept working. I'd say that was a 99.99% score.
The hardest part will be getting a 5.2 CD.
>
>
> Thomas
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