RedHat 6.1 next week (most likely)

[NKavanagh at psgroup.com (Niall Kavanagh)]

I've generally been a fan of re-installing from scratch. The one time I
upgraded (or tried to!) 5.1 to 6.0 I ended up spending more time hunting
down minor changes. Very irritating.

If you do upgrade, print out a list of RPMS currently installed (rpm -qa >
allrpms.txt) and try to install only those RPMs, taking special care not to
install an RPM for something you've installed by hand.

Your network configuration and system settings should remain the same (mine
did, though I don't have anything special setup in the network dept.)

I'm going to try an upgrade again this time around since I've heard good
things about this new installer. I'll let the list know my results (assuming
I'll still be able to read my mail ;) )

Niall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Michael [mailto:genepool at netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 6:16 PM
> To: Niall Kavanagh
> Cc: 'discuss at blu.org'
> Subject: Re: RedHat 6.1 next week (most likely)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm kind of curious what others experiences have been when upgrading 
> RedHat Linux. For example, I have a machine running 5.1 and 
> have a lot of 
> non-RPM software, such as the SNNS neural network. Also, I have 
> everything set up for dial out networking and routing of 
> internet traffic 
> to other boxes in my house. If I upgrade this machine, how 
> much of this 
> stuff has to be re-configured?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Niall Kavanagh wrote:
> 
> > FYI, RedHat will probably release 6.1 sometime next week. 
> Besides being the
> > first release since they've gone public, it will also feature:
> > 
> > o	the latest stable kernel
> > o	latest gnome desktop environment
> > o	improved installation, along with an active package 
> upgrade utility
> > (essentially an add-on to the rpm package management 
> system, allowing it to
> > detect and pull upgrades off a website)
> > o	a bunch of network management tools (yup, you read 
> right... a whole
> > bunch of them.)
> > 
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