Re: Upgrading from 5.2 to 6 over I-NET

[Eric Wood <eric interplas com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim <jim 3dws com>

> Q1:Is it true that a UPGRADE over a network from rhl 5.2 to 6.0 will
>wipe out ALLLLL of 5.2's files, and after the upgrade
>would appear the same as if you formated the drive and did a INSTALL ?


An upgrade does what it says.  It upgrades your system and most of the
changes you've made will be preserved in .rpmsave files.   Do a fresh
install if you want to be as if you formated the drive.

>Q2: I have heard that gnome 1.0 that comes with rh6.0 looks great, but
>still has bugs and does core dumps. Just curious as to how bad this
>problem is, and would you put this on a production server machine? Is
>this gnome 1.0 in beta? If doing core dumps. It should be.


Ahhum.  Yeah, some gnome apps core dumps but there's no serious ill effects.
I would install GNOME over KDE for the simple fact that gmc (gnome's file
manager) works better for me than kfm (KDE's file manager).

I've had kfm blow away entire directories with telling me - I don't trust it
any more.  Perhaps by KDE 2.0, I'll go back to using KDE.

-Eric Wood