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From: Kaplan, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 8:29 AM
Subject: [expert] Redhat to Mandrake
> I have installed Redhat 6, but recently discovered the Mandrake
> distribution. I noticed that Mandrake distributed rpms are compiled for a
> 586 processor rather than a 386. Is it possible to upgrade an installed
RH
> *.i386.rpm with the equivalent Mandrake *.i586.rpm file? Can this be done
> through GNOrpm or kpackage or must it be done at the command line with rpm
> -Uvh?
The easiest way would be too boot the cdrom and choose the upgrade option. I
had no problems with that, but I had a pretty generic setup. YMMV.
Hoyt
