--- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 18:35, Gary Thornock wrote: > > I'm not particularly interested in moving to 8.0 right now, > > though. I just got through reinstalling 7.3. (I suppose I > > might have considered installing 8.0 instead, if only there > > were an XFS install disc available for 8 like there is for > > 7.3. But there's not.) > > That's the beauty of it. You don't have to upgrade to 8.0. Just > install the relevant rpms that I made mentioned and you'll be able > to have OO in all it's anti-aliased glory. > > Also, XFS is only a function of the kernel and possibly some > XFS-related utilities, not the distro itself. You can upgrade > manually to RedHat 8.0 any time (by installing rpms) and have the > benefit of the nicer fonts, gnome 2, and still keep your XFS stuff. > I have done this type of thing many times. The only caveat would > be ximian packages. You'd want to remove those before upgrading.
I realize that XFS is a function of the kernel and the xfsprogs package. However, having an install CD that supports it "out of the box" is useful because it allows you to use XFS on the root partition. As far as manually upgrading RPMs, I may try doing something like that at some point, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon: I just finished getting this box set up and stable, and I'm not anxious to start messing around yet. Fortunately, if/when I do decide to upgrade, I don't have to worry about any ximian packages. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
