Re: XFS ISO images for RedHat 7.3

[rkelsoe@ev1.net]

Harri Haataja wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:40:05AM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:29:00PM +0200, Yves Thommes wrote:
> > > When will there be ISO images for RedHat 7.3 please ?
> > When someone from the community makes one.
> >
> > > I really would like to upgrade my servers from RedHat 7.2 to 7.3 but
> > > they're all running on an XFS filesystem and without an XFS ISO image
> > > i'm unable to upgrade, i guess :-)
> > There is another option.  There is a project out there to add rpm
> > support to apt.  Apt is the tool that allows Debian to upgrade from
> > release to release so easily.  There are several RedHat mirrors that
> > have aptified.  I'd recommend upgrading that way, just be careful to
> > keep your XFS enabled kernel.
> >
> > http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/
> 
> rpm apt will not touch kernels (you can define other ones to be held)
> unless specifically requested to. Even then it will only perform an -i
> and not -U or such.
> 

Thanks for the tip, Harri. I just used apt-get to update my RH7.1 system
(with the 2.4.18-SGI_XFS_1.1 kernel to RH7.3. It took a few tries to get
everything, but it worked. It did NOT install (or download) the
XFree86-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm, however, and some of the other XFree86
packages, and I had to do those manually from the RedHat CD's. Other
than that, everything looks great so far.

RK