At Wednesday, 29 December 1999, you wrote: >If I don't wanna download all the rpms, can I just leave the ones I don't >want out of the RPMS directory and expect the install to work just fine >excluding all the ones I don't have or do I have to do a little modifying? > >I also have a recommendation for future installers: A lot of ADSL users in >the USA and and Canada have to use the PPPoE protocol now instead of DHCP. >It would be really nice to be able to do an ftp install using PPPoE. The >clients are pretty stable now and I think that SUSE even includes one in >their distro... > >Eddy Cooper > Dear Eddy, I've mixed n matched 6.1 & Oxygen and its working ok. I've only taken the perl stuff, kernels rpms, binutils, libstdcc+, etc... I'd just say to make sure you've got your lilo.conf & passwd + shadow files backed up.. Don't set your kernel to the highest security levels until you can login ok as root... I had major problems after doing that.. I hope this help you with my experiences :) Tux is a Penguin with an open heart for all of mankind to learn from :-) =================================================================== EASY and FREE access to your email anywhere: http://Mailreader.com/ ===================================================================
