Re: Upgrade from 7.2 to 9

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> Well I did it and it seemed to work out fine.  Actually I did have a
> problem, shouldn't eat buttered popcorn while handling CD's but I got the
> dog to lick the butter off and wiped it on my jeans and it worked fine after
> that.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1 - I got an error saying the CD couldn't be read and the machine locked up
> - so I had to hit the reboot button, clean off the CD and started all over
> (Butter on the CD).  Would it have been possible to pick up from where it
> left off?  I ended up doing a custom upgrade and I hand picked all the
> programs I wanted but didn't know if they had already been installed before
> it crashed or if I got the best thing going.  What would have been the
> appropriate way to do things.  Is there a list somewhere of the "Standard"
> set of programs installed?

You can't "pick up where you left off (or crashed)" with anaconda.  It's
rather stupid about that sort of thing.  The list of packages and such
are on the first CD.  If it's mounted at /mnt/cdrom, the file to look at
is /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/base/comps.xml

> 2 - I did an upgrade as I didn't want to loose all the
> configurations/programs I had already loaded.  Is there a way to see what
> may be on the machine that I'm not using any more (i.e. was replaced by a
> different program under 9 that wasn't there under 7.2)?

I don't know of such a list.

> 3 - I also did a fresh install on my Dell Latitude notebook.  I didn't have
> it in the docking station at the time.  Has the docked/undocked
> configuration problem been solved or is that still more of a manual fix?

I think it's fixed, but my laptop (a Sony VAIO PCG-FXA36) doesn't have a
docking station (well, there is one available, I just never bought one).
I've never tried it.
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