Re: Upgrading From 7.2 to 9.0

Keith Mastin wrote:
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>>>... 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).
> 
> 
> Ahh... yes. Been there, done that. We have options to create more than one
> monolithic filesystem, snd you've just shown why. :)

I'm sure I can probably create a 20GB partition using mpartition or some 
other tool, I have 73.8GB free on my HDD.

> 
> 
>>>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.
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> 
> ... but it wouldn't be the only bonehead chang done in the recent past.
> 


No kidding. ;)