Re: RedHat Linux 8.0

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 11:54 pm, Thomas N wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am using RedHat 7.3 and my system is running fine.  I want to try
> Redhat 8.0 but I am not sure whether I should do full installation or
> just upgrade.  Which method is better?  Is there any different between
> the two methods?

I upgraded 7.3 with 8.0 and it worked fine, if you like the stock install of 
RH 8. It ran fine, but I found it to be a confusing mismatch of KDE, Gnome 
and RH tools that caused me to toss my cookies.

I think the upgrade is the way to go if you have a custom configured system, 
as everything on mine, the printer, samba, and all my export/import 
filesystems.

I was running ext3 under 7.3, and 8.0 wants all to go to ext3, but you may 
choose to keep ext2. That was confusing for me, and I now find myself running 
with ext2. Watch out. Pick ext3.

If you want to do it, I would recommend that you install all the *-devel-* 
rpms for everything. I think that this can be chosen in an upgrade by doing a 
custom install and choosing the "development" packages as part of the 
install.

Good luck.

-- 
Rob Blomquist
Kirkland, WA

On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 
'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever 
after.

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