 | | | Upgrading From 7.2 to 9.0 | Upgrading From 7.2 to 9.0 2003-05-09 - By Keith Mastin
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> Keith Mastin wrote:
>>>Keith Mastin wrote:
> <snip>
>>>>If you have a spare hard drive kicking around, download the iso's to
>>>> there and unwrap the iso images to the installation files etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I do, but I've already downloaded about (or over) half the RPM's
>>> already! Gah. I've never had any luck with trying to do an install via
>>> ISO from the harddrive.
>>>
>>>Why doesn't RedHat have a distro-upgrade like Debian? That's probably
>>> the best newbie friendly feature a distro could have imo.
>>>
>>>*sighs and ponders what to do next*
>>
>>
>> ... well, since you did mention Debian... I'm one of the dudes phasing
>> out all my redhat servers over to Deb, and the network install is one
>> of the pluses.
>
> True dat. Unfortunately I found out the hard way I'm not competent
> enough to use it (and I'd rather not go through the bother of formatting
> my HDD again, I have over 5GB of music, and about 2-3 GB of txt
> documents, install bundles (mainly tar-gz (that is until I started
> downloading the RH9 RPM's)). If I had a smaller HDD I could spare, I
> would install Deb to it and slowly migrate...somehow (biggest HDD I have
> past the one I'm using now is only 5GB).
Ahh... yes. Been there, done that. We have options to create more than one
monolithic filesystem, snd you've just shown why. :)
>> IIRC, you can also do an ftp install of redhat, but I dunno if they
>> kept this feature for the newer (8 or 9) releases.
>>
> Getting rid of it would be kinda retardo imo.
... but it wouldn't be the only bonehead chang done in the recent past.
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Keith Mastin
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