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Re: Let's talk about upgrading... Problems...



Seems upgrading is not gonna work... This system only
has a single 1.2 Gb Hd and not enough room in the /usr
partition for upgrading. Doing the 7.3 simple upgrade
steps has made the machine unable to boot, now. I have
a surplus 6.4 Gb HD, but what should I do now. I'm
afraid I just ruin this dude's stuff. Booting from the
7.3 CD doesn't seem to help - I thought I could just
install the 'new' HD and move the /usr partition onto
the CD, but now I'm feeling like a total ID10T.

Please help...

--- Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us> wrote:
> RedHat does a pretty good job of upgrading, even
> over multiple releases. 
> If he has files that he wants to save, then he
> should probably back them 
> up, although this will be less of a danger if they
> are in /home and /home 
> is a separate partition.
> 
> Does the machine have enough space in the partitions
> for some growth?
> 
> If that is the case, I would just try booting from a
> recent RH install
> disk and choosing upgrade. Don't add any packages at
> this time, I suggest,
> to make sure that there is enough space for the new
> version. The upgrade 
> may be quite graceful.
> 
> Erich
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Joe Newbie wrote:
> 
> > Whoa!...
> > 
> > $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> > Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
> > 
> > OK... If this were one of y'all, what should I do
> with
> > this puppy. There's files on here that this guy
> don't
> > want trashed, so going for the easy route and
> doing a
> > wipe and clean install is out (my usual
> method...).
> > Besides, it's a good challenge.
> > 
> > Remember, can't compile anything, either...
> > 
> > Though, until I mess with the networking stuff or
> > other things, I can download stuff to my heart's
> > content, it's the installing of stuff that's going
> to
> > be a tricky thing. At least, going the route of
> using
> > the kernel as is... Perhaps, one of those disk
> boots
> > that I remember reading about could work...
> > 
> > Someone lead me a little...
> > 
> > (oh yeah)  Please...
> > 
> > --- Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Question, how do I check what RH version is
> > > installed?
> > > > I always wondered about that, never really
> cared
> > > much
> > > > since my systems never stay pristine anyhoo...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 	cat /etc/redhat-release
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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