On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Alessandro Oliveira wrote: >Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 10:01:48 -0300 >From: Alessandro Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: psyche-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Instalation bugs > >Hi, > >1) I selected custom install and I manually partitioned my hardrive, I >have the following partitions in my notebooks hardrive: /boot, /opt, >/home, /var and /, since I'd like to preserve my personal files at >/home, software I installed manually like Oracle, Acrobat and Rational >Rose at /opt, my mysql/postgresql/bind databases at /var, I selected to >keep them untouched by Disk Druid. After the installation finished I >found out that the installation preserved my databases but it trashed the >RPM database keeping the information from the previous installation.
Sounds to me like you chose "Install" instead of "Upgrade". If you've got an existing installation of Red Hat Linux, and want to upgrade it to a new release, the correct choice is "Upgrade". "Install", by definition is destructive, either by formatting partitions, or by leaving them as is, and just stomping over the data that is present. >Is this the expected behaviour ? Yes. If it isn't the desired behaviour however, it's because you should have chose "Upgrade" instead. Upgrade upgrades the software, and keeps your system intact, etc. >What would I do with the duplicate entries in the RPM database ? I'd suggest a full backup of all important data on your hard disks, and do a fresh install, plus data restore. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc.
