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Re: [PLUG] "Distro" advocates
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On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:14:23AM -0400, darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
: I wanted to do a full upgrade of a redhat box. I couldn't figure out how
: to do it without:
:
: 1) downloading the full .iso of the latest release (which contians many
: files I won't use & is therefor a waste of time/bandwidth)
: 2) rebooting the box off of the iso & figuring out how to convince it to
: upgrade.
Did you try downloading the new RPMs and installing them? You don't really
*NEED* to do the "upgrade" procedure with RedHat. I'd first upgrade rpm,
then do an rpm --rebuilddb. It's not terribly automated, but it works.
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Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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