Re: Upgrade of 486

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:47:21 -0000 "David Archer" <dmadance hotmail com>
spake unto us:

> I have an old 486 running red hat 5.2, I would like to upgrade to
> version 7 
> which I have the cd's for, while maintaining all the settings, mounts,
> etc.. 
> I can't boot from the cd, and I want to keep most of the files on my
> 486. 
> How can I do this? I have a small network with a newer machine running
> the 
> later Linux if that helps. Both linux machines have are connected to
> Windows 
> machines which mount the drives of both.

Network install, using NFS or FTP. You can set a cd drive up as an export
from the linux machine and NFS mount it during install or set the linux
box to do FTP (if it doesn't already) and ftp the files from the mounted
cd drive.

I used NFS on 6.0, 6.2 and 7.0 and it worked well.

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