On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mike Miller wrote about, Moving from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.1:
> I'm planning to update from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.1. Is it better to select
> the install option or the upgrade option? So far I haven't done much
> with the 5.2 version so I don't think there is much to lose. Can I do
> the install on top of the existing file system or do I have to delete
> the linux native partition and recreate it?
Considering you say theres not much to be lost i would say do a complete
install. The installer will install the new stuff on the same partitions
which have 5.2 on them, it will not overwrite the exsiting data as others
explaned, it will ask you if you want to reformat the disk first, it is
strongly advised to do that.
As to an upgarde, that can be done easily as well, however upgradeing is
what it says, only exsiting programs get upgraded and new programs get
installed, which means if you did not install a certain program on 5.2 then
6.1 might also leave it out.
I upgraded 6.0 to 6.1 but found many things wrong, if disk space is very
limited then you could bump into a few problems because the upgrade does a
lot of backing up of config and other files which takes up considerable
space.
>
> Mike
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