Re: Upgrading From 7.2 to 9.0

Keith Mastin wrote:
>>Keith Mastin wrote:
<snip>
>>>If you have a spare hard drive kicking around, download the iso's to
>>>there and unwrap the iso images to the installation files etc.
>>>
>>
>>I do, but I've already downloaded about (or over) half the RPM's
>>already! Gah. I've never had any luck with trying to do an install via
>>ISO from the harddrive.
>>
>>Why doesn't RedHat have a distro-upgrade like Debian? That's probably
>>the best newbie friendly feature a distro could have imo.
>>
>>*sighs and ponders what to do next*
> 
> 
> ... well, since you did mention Debian... I'm one of the dudes phasing out
> all my redhat servers over to Deb, and the network install is one of the
> pluses.

True dat. Unfortunately I found out the hard way I'm not competent 
enough to use it (and I'd rather not go through the bother of formatting 
my HDD again, I have over 5GB of music, and about 2-3 GB of txt 
documents, install bundles (mainly tar-gz (that is until I started 
downloading the RH9 RPM's)). If I had a smaller HDD I could spare, I 
would install Deb to it and slowly migrate...somehow (biggest HDD I have 
past the one I'm using now is only 5GB).

> 
> IIRC, you can also do an ftp install of redhat, but I dunno if they kept
> this feature for the newer (8 or 9) releases.
> 

Getting rid of it would be kinda retardo imo.