RE: My Red Hat 6.1 Experience

[Adrian Buxton <abuxton internal ozemail com au>]

I've upgraded two machines without a problem. 6.0 --> 6.1 was the first
upgrade that I have done. Usually I just rebuild, but I'm glad I didn't.
I also didn't have any problems with the installer..

just my $0.02

Adrian


-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Popowich [mailto:popowich spooky dynip com]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 1999 5:23
To: redhat-list redhat com
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Subject: My Red Hat 6.1 Experience



For those of you considering upgrading this early, here is the run down
of what I just went through...

I did an upgrade on an existing system 6.0 -> 6.1.  I have to say that the
new install program is dumb.  Please go back to the old version, it was
much faster to work through/with.  All of my packages appear to have
installed correctly, but the install crashed after installing the
packages.  I waited 15 minutes for it to do something.  My mouse still
worked, but the installer just sat around doing nothing.  I turned off my
machine, rebooted, and linux started back up.  My old custom 2.2.12 kernel
was still the default, but all the startup scripts, etc, had been
upgraded.  They have nifty little % things to watch while your drives are
being fsck'ed (bad umount, I killed the power).  It looks like I got all
the new packages installed and have been left with my old configurations.
Very nice, but probably not the intended result.    

Note to Red Hat:  Please go back to the old installer.

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Raymond Popowich
popowich spooky dynip com



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