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pengwin
10-19-2001, 06:49 PM
is it possible via rpm to upgrade successfully from 5.2 to 7.0 or 7.1 ?
i bought the 5.2 last year (or was it year before?) and shelved it; have been trying to download 7.1 from redhat ftp mirror sites and am getting dl time estimates of 16 + hours - and i have a dsl connection. don't want to buy the fancy boxed set just yet.
if rpm upgrade is available/possible , the download may not be as long :)
thanks for any advice
pen :confused:
DwarfBaby
10-20-2001, 12:53 AM
I can't help you with that but I would suggest downloading from http://www.linuxiso.org/
instead. I got between 80 to 120K for two 650 meg ISO's. That's about an hour per disc.
posterboy
10-20-2001, 09:17 AM
Upgrading is sometimes a chancy thing. This started as RH 5.0 and each release after that, I succeeded in upgrading, until we got to 7.0. That was a mess. I never was able to get the upgrade to perform. I waited for 7.1, tried again, same issues, failed. ONE more time, I am going to try when 7.2 is available, then, give up and start over, I guess. Try it, remembering that almost nothing will miss getting a new pkg, as it has all changed in that length of time. HTH, Ray
i upgraded from 6 to 7 to 7.1 all with rpms.
if you get redcarpet from ximian it will make it go real fast.
then on redhats ftp page grab the redhat-release rpm from the rawhide page so progrmas know you updated.
posterboy
10-20-2001, 04:15 PM
Man, i wish I could make it work. Red-carpet is out of commison, it (or RPM) had some bugs that messed up my rpm database, and I got the newest RPM, which fixes broken DB's on the fly, so that's no longer an issue, but redcarpet knows nothing about the new form of DB's and wont even load up. Ximian is "going to" support the new RPM format, but who knows when. I have 7.0 and 7.1 CD's right at hand, but it crashes during the upgrade, even if I just pick a few packages. Tell me more, please? Ray