On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Nauman ul-Haque wrote:
> Hi!,
> I Have two problems here,
>
> 1). Right now I am on RH 6.1, and I want to upgrade to the newer version
> that is 6.2. Is there a way that I will not have to delete the current whole
> setup of my linux box and just upgrade to the newer version? And if there
> is, what does that upgrade do? does it upgrade all of my packages too?
Just start the 6.2 install and choose "upgrade". I recall that you can
also choose what to upgrade, but you might as well uprgade everything.
> I was also wondering if I am on RH right now, and I want to move to
> Slackware then I will have to reinstall everything?
Yes.
>or if I want to move to
> manderake (which I think, I am not sure has the same file system as RH) I
> will have to resinatll everythign again?
I think so. I switched from rh to mdk and did a clean install like a good
boy. Can't hurt to try though - if it harms your rh install, you were
about to install mdk anyway. Backup your config files though, they should
be good for mdk as well.
>
> 2). The second problem is that my friend installed RH and the partition
> containing the /boot was after the 1024 cylinders in the HDD, so now lilo
> wont install. Then he tried to first install linux and then windows. But
> when Linux was installed first, it some how took over the whole HDD and the
> extra space that was left for windows was taken as Extended partition by
> linux.Is there a way to somehow boot linux even if the kernel resides in
> more then 1024 cylinder? then this whole problem wil be solved. I heard this
> is a problem with lilo too, but if I use any other boot loader then lilo,
> then I might boot, please help me so that i can fix up his machine.
>
Windows wants to be on hda1, so it must be installed first. I've never had
a disk big enough to be a problem, but there are options. 1) first a win
partition, then /boot (below 1024), then win d:, then linux stuff. 2) I
think bootloaders such as chos do a better job than lilo. Anyway, wait
till someone else says something about this, as I have stayed below the
dreaded 8 gig line :)
J.Siltala
> Thank You
> Nauman
>
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