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Subject: upgrading to 6.2 a different approach From: jack wallen jr <jwallen@techrepublic.com> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 16:28:28 -0400 (EDT) i'm sure others have done this already but i wanted to report that i upgraded my home machine to 6.2 one piece at a time. it only took me an hour or so but i dl'd, letter of the alphabet at a time, each package and rpm -Uvh'd them until i was finished. the upgrade was flawless and now i have 6.2 Zoot running just fine. in fact there are things i noticed that didn't break like they did when i upgraded to 6.1. BRAVO RED HAT and all involved. === Subject: Re: upgrading to 6.2 a different approach From: jack wallen jr <jwallen@techrepublic.com> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 00:02:49 -0400 (EDT) John P. Verel" <jverel@home.com> wrote: > Does this upgrade the kernel and reconfigure lilo to boot the new > kernel? nope, once you run the rpm you have to go to /boot and take the new entry, vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0, and change it's corresponding entry in /etc/lilo.conf. then rerun lilo and your gold. === Subject: Re: upgrading to 6.2 a different approach From: "David D.W. Downey" <ddowney@codecastle.com> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 18:52:38 -0400 jack wallen jr wrote: > > i'm sure others have done this already but i wanted to report that i > upgraded my home machine to 6.2 one piece at a time. it only took me an > hour or so but i dl'd, letter of the alphabet at a time, each package > and rpm -Uvh'd them until i was finished. the upgrade was flawless and > now i have 6.2 Zoot running just fine. I've upgraded a few machines that way myself. Works great, like you said. The only thing left to do now is to go back and use something like GnoRPM to remove all the extra packages taht you don't really need or want. I remove the extra HOWTOs in different languages, the SGML versions, all of the extra tetex stuff, the emacs lisp source code and usually can get around another 100MB of space back. (Around 120 to 125 if I remove emacs as well, since I hate that little POS). ===