On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, steve harris wrote:
Hi Steve and others...
> RedHat 6.2 will be out April 10.
thanks, thats not the problem, the iso image for rh62 is allready on my
machine ;)
> MacMillan Mandrake 7 died on my system, and I was trying to upgrade
> MacMillan Mandrake 6.0 to 7.0
well thats at least a statement which tells me that upgrading with
Mandrake does probably not work...
> My comment would be "don't upgrade just to upgrade.
Thats certainly true in most cases and the reason why I'm asking this
question in this forum. I just would like to see the speedups
everybody is speaking about.
> If you upgrade any system be prepared to tweak a few things.
> (no real good answer for you I know, just experience)
Well, I wouldn't expect that a action like that runs 'out of the box',
I just want to know if somebody achieved it without spoiling the system.
There's a slight difference between tweaking a few things and reinstalling
the whole system+configuration+me nerves... ;) (I've done such stupid
things ages ago, and I remember the nights repairing such systems... ;)
> fwiw
>
> steve
thanks for your answers and hints
Frank
>
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] upgrading RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:36:19 +0200 (MEST)
>
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, larry wrote:
>
> > i just installed mandrake. i didn't see the word "redhat" anywhere
> in
> > the installation. unless you know a hell of lot more than i do, i'd just
> do
> > a new mandrake install.
>
> no, I asked if it is possible to upgrade RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0
> (the homepage states that Mandrake is RedHat-compatible, so I assume that
> I can upgrade my RedHat 6.1 installation to Mandrake 7.0 without
> jeopardizing my whole configuration and setup...
>
> and I don't want to 'just' install mandrake over my existing system,
> because it'll take me additional two weeks to recreate my whole
> enviorment...
>
> > larry
>
> bye
> Frank
