I installed the beta of Shrike and my only real comment is that - where did the cute yellow flower desktop come from? What's up with that? DF
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 18:40, Shawn wrote: > Hiho, > > This will be my first upgrade of RH ever. > > Three questions: > > 1) Nvidia > > Will the file /etc/X11/XF86Config get overwritten? > > If not, do I need the src iso to get the src kernel to install the driver? > (To install the driver for updated kernels, I needed a src kernel -- but > not for the orginial kernel distributed with RH8). > > Is it easiest to just put the x11 conf file back to Driver "nv" (or > Driver "vesa") > instead of and then switch it back to Driver "nvidia" and reinstall after > upgrading. IF so, which is it for RH8 nv or vesa? > > After upgrading, will my previous list of bootable kernels be gone so that > I can't fall back on them. > > 2) Packages selection > > I read the RH manual, but it wasn't clear about what gets upgraded. If I > select customize the packages, do I need to have a list of every package > that needs to be installed, or will currently installed packages > automatically be checked to be included in the upgrade (and then I can just > select things like mysql)? If I don't customize the packages, will I end > up with the full base install? I need to save my data so I am not talking > about a clean install here. > > 3) Overwritten files. > > the manual says .cf files will be backed up. Are there other files that > could be overwritten withour being backed up? In other words, if I look at > /root/upgrade.log will I find out that .bash_profile, or maybe some font > file (I have microsoft Japanese fonts installed and working) or other such > niceties replaced with out-of-the-box Shrike stuff. > > I DON'T WANT TO DO AN UPGRADE BUT MY CD DRIVE SOMETIMES IS AT scsibus0: > 0,0,0 and SOMETIMES AT scsibus1: 1,0,0 AND SOMETIMES CAN'T BE FOUND. > People suggested 9 is more stable so.... > > -- > Shawn > > Happily using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: > http://www.opera.com/m2/ > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
