Re: tlug: "Upgrading": best method?

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>]

Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com> wrote,

> My installation of Red Hat 5.0, while it works, lacks many of the extras
> in
> newer distributions (esp. easy Japanese ability).  So I want to install 
> a new RPM based distribution.  The real question is:
> 
> Does 'upgrading' work with newer RPM based Linux distributions (RH 5.1,
> etc.)  Or is it still better to wipe everything (except /home) and start
> clean? 
> Also, in particular, would TurboLinux upgrade from RedHat?

I doubt the latter.

> Wiping the drive isn't a tremendously big deal for me, it just that I've 
> forgotten how half of my programs were set up (mail program, PPPd, Quake 
> Eraser bots, SCSI raid-0 w/ md, etc.).

If you install from scratch, make sure you have your old /etc 
tar'ed on some disk or so - that might save you some
headaches.

Manuel
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