[99406] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Upgrading to 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sat Nov 14 01:43:32 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:56:42 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Brian Dragoo wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1. What is the easiest/best way to upgrade from RH 5.1 to 5.2? A
> simple question, perhaps, but the RH web site doesn't seem to offer
> simple answers...
The easiest way is to start with the Official Redhat 5.2 Boxed Set.
The manual alone is worth the price. It tells you exactly what needs
to be done. This mailing list is half full of questions people can't
figure
out because they don't have that manual, so you decide.
Basically you boot from the 5.2 CD, or from the 5.2 boot floppy.
When it asks whether you want to UPGRADE or INSTALL, you
know what you want.
When it's done, you'll need to do a little fixup, like going through
all the *.rpmsave files (mostly in /etc), compare them to the
new versions of the file, and fix anything that the upgrade process
did not fix for you.
> 2. On coming across a few Linux boxes (where I didn't personally do
> the installation), how do I find out (a) whether it is a RH
> distribution, and (b) what version it is? Thanks,Brian Dragoo
If it is a recent RedHat, it will say so on the login screens,
along with the version.
And, rpm -qa|grep redhat will also tell you the release number.
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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