[plug] Red Hat 6 (?)

[John Summerfield]

> Bret Busby wrote:
> > 
> > We have a copy of RH 6, but have not yet installed it.
> 
> > What are the benefits of the upgrade?
> 
> G'day Bret. I've got 6.0 running here and now at work (as of Saturday)
> mostly without drama. I did try doing an upgrade (my first) on the home
> box some weeks ago but found a few holes in the install. I'm not
> prepared to say this was a fault of the distro as I hadn't done an
> upgrade before and also had very little time to troubleshoot - serves me
> right for doing while I should have been working on that C programming
> assignment for Uni!

One of the problems raised was the install. Download latest boot images 
for the cure.

I have also read that the 'workstation" setup erases things first. I'd 
take care with that one.

> 
> I ended up taking that back to 5.2 for quick use and then trying again
> with an install rather than an upgrade. That worked a treat. Other than
> the problem with X that I reported on the w/end, everything is going
> fine. The box at work was also a fresh install rather than an upgrade
> and for a server that has production uses, it's ticking nicely.
> 
> I'd suggest fresh install considering the changes that have been made
> with 6.0 unless you have time to play.

I don't think a fresh install is an especially good idea. For starters, 
you lose anything in the "local" directories - software installed from 
sources outside the distro.

Then there's all the configuration stuff in /etc maybe network, dialup, 
DNS, Squid, Apache, Mail....

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