RE: My Red Hat 6.1 Experience

[Adrian Buxton <abuxton internal ozemail com au>]

I used an ISO CD image from a RH mirror site.
So disk :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Zygar [mailto:ryan pacifier com]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 1999 17:12
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Subject: Re: My Red Hat 6.1 Experience


Adrian Buxton wrote:

> 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
> Cc: recipient.list.not.shown
> 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.
>
> -----
> Raymond Popowich
> popowich spooky dynip com
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Q: Did you upgrade from disk? Or kernel upgrade and package ugrade?

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