Redhat Installation

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>After 5 failed attempts at installing RedHat 3.0.3 via FTP I gave up and>
>took the "old" way out.  I used the CD-ROM.  The big problem is that
>I only have RedHat 2.1 on CD.  I installed just enough to get it
>to boot.

>At the last TLUG meeting (when are we meeting again?) I remember that
>Jim demonstrated a rather snazzy graphical installation manager.  How
>do I call this up?  I have the rpm command line installer, but I want
>to install a whole load of programs all at once.  I would normally play
<around by myself, but it is really late and I have found myself playing
>with Linux only after midnight.

>I would still like to install the new 3.0.3, but will settle for installing
>it off the CD-ROM at this point.  I can't find any docs on using
>RedHat, though their home page offers to sell it for USD 14.95.


Make sure you have glyph, control-panel, netcfg, timetool, usercfg apps. These
are the GUI apps that do all the fancy setup and config for you. Therefore, you
will need X-Winows up and running too.
After you have this up and running, you need to get the rpm, cpio, rpmconvert
binaries from the upgrade directory under the RedHat directories. run
rpmconvert, which converts the rpm database to the 3.0.3 version.
Then you can run the upgrade script and it will upgrade what ever you have
installed. From there you can add or remove rpms at will.

I ran into the same thing here. Had an old CDROM version.

I have done this numerous times so if you run into problems drop me a line.

Regards,

Mark A. D'Arcy
Electronic Data Systems, Ltd.
C/O General Motors Japan, Ltd.
Yebisu Garden Place Tower, 27th Floor
4-20-3 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150 JAPAN

Tel:  +81-3-5424-2833
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