[plug] Redhat 7.3 install (argh!!!!)

[Jay Warwick]

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 01:19, Tony Clark wrote:
> On Thursday 05 September 2002 16.24, Adrian Blockley wrote:
> > OK I finally have a working RedHat 7.3 distribution but it took a
> > couple of days. I Got the distribution from the NEXT Handbooks
> > packaging of RedHat 7.3. I checked CDs 1 and 2 using the checkmedia
> > option and the md5checksums matched. Disk 3 on the other hand did not
> > have a checksum and this, i presume, is why the install failed.
> .....
> > I am not too sure why I couldn't get the upgrade to work but I think
> > its closely related to the fact that my original installation had
> > wandered a long way from the original redhat defaults.
> >
> > I have a colleague who swears by Debian - he has been walking round
> > with a big grin and telling me how easy his last upgrade was (sigh...)
> 
> I have a RH partition on this disk which I hardly ever use and had RH7.2 on 
> it.  I was bored last night, needed some practice on RH,  so I upgraded it to 
> 7.3.  Took a couple of hours (around 500 packages) using apt-get downloading 
> the packages from the net.  I must admit I did have to un install a couple of 
> packages to resolve some screwed up dependancies but I've had to do that on 
> debian as well in the past.  The correct versions where replace by apt-get in 
> any case.  My only real beef with RH since version 7 has been their somewhat 
> broken version of gcc  Install apt-rpm, you'll appriciate it
> 
> tony 
> 
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As a new Linux user I find this information interesting.  But does the
third disk work or doesn't it.  I have also bought Redhat7.3 only to be
disappointed.
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Thank you,

Jay Warwick