Re: Newbie question upgrading Redhat 5.2

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

Vale just had me burn 6 copies of RH 6.0, and I'm bringing them to the meeting
tomorrow night to give away.

So line up and have one when we meet.

Vale -- you wanna carpool down there?  save on $$?

k

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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, ray beckler wrote:

> Greg,
> 
> I did the same thing.   Just installed 5.2 in March.
> 
> With my only net access being a 56kb modem, I purchased the 6.0 CD.  RedHat
> has an upgrade option on the CD that's pretty painless.  I had to rebuild my
> kernel to match what I had on 5.2, but other than that it was a breeze.
> (the new kernel is big, I had to use make bzImage)
> 
> You could download everything but to me the $60 (BestBuy) was worth it.
> Just boot with the floppy, insert the CD, choose upgrade and you're done in
> a half hour.  I don't remember if I chose it, but it did change my window
> manager to Gnome/Enlightenment.  (it's pretty nice.)
> 
> 
> ray
> 
> Greg Weber wrote:
> 
> > I am new to Linux .  Have  Redhat 5.2 up and running (2.0.36).  Silly me
> > did not realize that 6.0 was coming out the following week.  Received
> > mail from Redhat indicating that I can upgrade to 6.0 for free from the
> > FTP site.  So... a couple of silly questions.
> >
> > 1.  Is upgrading by downloading advisable?  I found the Kernel upgrade
> > documentaion and it seems pretty straightforward.
> >
> > 2.  I assume that I upgrade the Kernel first  and then either have to or
> > choose to upgrade other components?
> >
> > 3.  Any advice on upgrading RH Linux?
> >
> > 4.   Maybe it is not worth upgrading although I'd like the latest before
> > settling in.  Comments?
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Greg
> >
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