Re: More 6.1 Upgrades Woes

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Gumbley
Matt Nelson wrote: > > i am fully aware that some people choose to upgrade via `rpm -Uvh --nodeps > --force *.rpm' but i'm not 100% convinced that this is a safe procedure. > besides, whether or not this works is completely irrelevent to my original > statement. Could a Red Hat Person please tel

Re: install2 update

1999-10-06 Thread Matt Gumbley
Anne POSSOZ wrote: > > Since some days there is a new update for redhat-6.0: > updates/6.0/images/i386/install2 > > Am I suppose to replace it in RedHat/instimage/usr/bin? > > Is there a place with comment about diffrences? What is changed > since may 29? not sure - but I'd certainly appreciat

Re: redhat-release.rpm

1999-10-04 Thread Matt Gumbley
Kevin Waterson wrote: > > is this rpm needed for the installation? > > I removed it and get errors on trying to install? > > Kevin > > -- > To unsubscribe: > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null It's what the initscripts use to determine which version of RedHat is installed, AFAI

Re: RedHat installer HowTo?

1999-09-30 Thread Matt Gumbley
Adrian Likins wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:16:01PM +0100, Matt Gumbley wrote: > > > > Question: Does Lorax differ vastly from the RH 6.0 Way? > > > Yes and no. trees/ is pretty similar to 6.0, but /misc/src/install and > /misc/src/installinit are g

Re: RedHat installer HowTo?

1999-09-29 Thread Matt Gumbley
Kevin Waterson wrote: > > Matt Gumbley and others wrote: > > > Kevin, > > I've been following your thread on redhat-devel re: updboots, lack of > > documentation - could you point me to the howto you said you were > > writing? > > I ha

Errata download "stripper" available

1999-09-14 Thread Matt Gumbley
I wanted to download all of the RH6.0 Errata web pages, for offline browsing while doing upgrades (and burning onto my upgrade files CDROM), so I wrote the following quick hack, which someone might find useful. http://www.gumbley.demon.co.uk/errata-stripper.pl You'll need a bunch of errata HTML