Re: Upgrading to RHEL 4

[Graeme Nichols <gnichols tpg com au>]

jlopes151 comcast net wrote:
> Ok so I have downloaded the *.iso files now what? I don't yet know enough about Linx to use these files. Can anyone help?
>
> James

You will have to burn then to CD. The iso file is an image of the CD 
which you need to write track by track to your CD to get a data disk. 
Read the instructions with your CD burner software. You can use your 
Windows machine to create your CDs using your Windows CD burner software.

When you have done this insert the first CD into your CD drive and 
re-boot your machine and read all the release notes etc. before doing 
anything else.

Once you have read all the release notes and other stuff you can go 
ahead and either install a second HD to hold Linux (best option, a cheap 
40Gb will do nicely) or partition your HD to make room for Linux. You 
will need at least three partitions, a boot partition, say 500Mb to 
allow for more than one kernel (I get away with 102K of which only 11K 
are in use by my 1 kernel), a swap partition (at least equal in size to 
the amount of RAM you have installed) and a good sized partition to hold 
everything else (I have 39,000,000K of which 15,000,000K is used by FC4 
full install and all my other files, data etc.) You can create other 
partitions to hold various bits of your file system if you like, but the 
above three have worked fine for me for several years but mine is 
essentially a single user system. If you have more than one user you may 
like to put the home dir on a separate partition.

Good luck.

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