[plug] RH6 Upgrade

[John Breen]

I'm a professional programmer.  I get paid to play with my PC.  (Admittedly
in windoze, but...)

As for the backup, I was going to copy most of my config files to a network
drive and restore them once I have all my kernel bits in place.

Cheers,


John

John Breen
Programmer
United Construction Pty Ltd

(08) 9499-0472
0413-462-818
john.breen at unitedconstruction.com.au




	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Len Bird [SMTP:lenbird at iinet.net.au]
	Sent:	Monday, August 30, 1999 8:18 PM
	To:	plug at linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] RH6 Upgrade

	John Breen wrote:

	> I just bought (forked out $150 for) The Official RH6, and am
looking at
	> upgrading my RH5.2 machines over the next few days.
	>
	> Are there any obvious nasties I should watch out for, or is it all
really
	> easy?
	>
	> I had actually thought that one of them could just be blown away
and
	> completely re-installed, which I've always found to be an easier
method with
	> Winslows.  Is doing that liable to cause me any problems?
	>
	> Thanks in advance for comments, advice and so forth.
	>
	> Cheers,
	>
	> John
	>
	> John Breen
	> Programmer
	> United Construction Pty Ltd
	>
	> (08) 9499-0472
	> 0413-462-818
	> john.breen at unitedconstruction.com.auI

	I cannot speak with authority about the "Official" release of
RH-6---where did
	you get $150 from anywat! But I got a $7:00c version from
Everythinglinux, and
	found that my RH 5.3 got screwed up despite the caveats and
instructions. I
	suggest that you back up all of your configuration files, and
essential
	irreplaceable software, and proceed to do a RH-6 installation from
scratch
	taking care to use the "Format" option(s) . That way you will get a
guarteed
	peace of mind, and very little if any additional time required.
Every Hardware
	situation is different, and it is quite possible that an Upgrade may
be
	possible on some machines.  It is perhaps better to be safe. Once
you have RH-6
	installed you will probably wonder how you got by without it!   Good
luck
	anyhow.

	Regards  Len Bird