Re: RH7.3 w/o ISO?

[Harald Wagener <hwagener@hamburg.fcb.com>]

Thomas Bittermann wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> >Since many have asked about patching up the 7.3 installer and,
> >understandably, these things take time, I was wondering if there was a
> >way to upgrade to 7.3 over the network from a working 7.x system. If so,
> >I think that would work for me and many others and reduce the noise on
> >the list. :)
> >
> >
> i've mounted the rh73 isos, and upgraded all with "rpm -Fvh *rpm". few
> package-dependencies were broken
> (i've installed a lot of rawhide-rpms). i had to resolve the conflicts
> manually. but now i run a clean rh73+xfs1.1,
> though i think about switching to mandrake 8.2, which allready have xfs
> support.
> 
> greetings
> thomas

I had the opportunity to switch to Mandrake 8.2 after a catastrophic failure
of my freshly updated rh7.3 system (something went _really_ wrong during one
of the scheduled fscks and /etc was trashed completely - you wouldn't want to
know). Generally, I am not looking back.

Regards,
	Harald

PS: Normally I am not into distribution dsw'ing, but I think Mandrake and
RedHat combined would just be able to beat the rest (maybe). - H.

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