Re: tlug: where is the linux netscape for free.

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Eric Standlee writes:

 > On a similar note.  My copy of RH 5.1 will arrive soon.  Should I just wipe
 > the slate clean and install it fresh, or is there a way to install the base
 > 5.1 over a current 4.1 and what are the benefits/drawbacks?

There certainly is an upgrade option ... should be pretty obvious once
the install program starts up. I upgraded from 4.1 to 5.0 a few months
ago, and it worked fine except for the partitioning problem which I'll
get to in a minute. Since it's such a major upgrade and you'll want to
do a good backup anyway, I don't know if you stand to lose much by
just starting over -- except if you've done a lot of mucking around in
/etc , upgrading in place will probably preserve most of your changes
or at least keep them as backup files.

The only problem I had was with partition sizes ... and if you have
ample disk space this probably won't be affect you. But I did my
upgrade on a machine with limited disk space, and I had it partitioned
in a sort of "by-the-book" fashion -- by one of the books, anyway --
with a 20MB / partition and a 24MB /var partition, (with separate
/usr, /opt, /usr/local, and /home partitions) which were enough for
4.1. Found out 5.0 needed at least 28 megs for the root partition, and
the installation (hmmm ... maybe this was only because I did an FTP
install) used a LOT of /tmp space. Anyway, I had to do a lot of
shuffling around.

Enjoy!

Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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