On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote about "Re: redhat 7.2 install/upgrade experiences?": > Redhat 7.2 is really Redhat 8.0 - Lots of surprises that should not be in > a minor release, like iproute's "ip" instead of "ifconfig".
I still have ifconfig... $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) $ rpm -qf =ifconfig net-tools-1.60-3 ip (from the iproute packages) is also available, but I never used it and continue to use ifconfig. > get the new IP address?. Watch out for the default ipchains firewalling > that they slip in also. This fakes out a lot of folks who can't figure out > why they can't simply mount an NFS file system. Setting a firewall is an option while installing the system, and if you pay attention you can just answer "no firewall" (I don't remember if the default is firewall on or off). If I remember correctly, Redhat 7.1 also had the same firewall option. If I remember correctly, when upgrading an old system you're not even given the firewall option, so this may not be an issue at all. >Also, be sure to snoop > around in /etc/sysconfig, some stuff moved there that used to be > otherwise. It's really very poor configuration management on Redhat's > part IMHO. You might even think of staying with 7.1, it's much more > friendly to 6.2 users than 7.2. After every Redhat upgrade, make sure you read /tmp/upgradelog (or whatever you call them), and look at the system for ".rpmnew" and ".rpmsave" and ".rpmorig" files, to see what Redhat's automatic upgrade failed to make sense of. I've upgraded the computer I'm writing this on from Redhat 6.2 to 7.0, 7.1 and then 7.2, and never had more than small problems I could resolve in an hour or two. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Nov 25 2001, 10 Kislev 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |The road to good intentions is paved with http://nadav.harel.org.il |hell. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
