[CALUG] Upgrading from RH 7.3

[Dave Bazell]

Jim, Rajiv, "junekis",

Thanks for the information.  I have another question that was prompted by
what Jim said.  I have an existing version of RH on my computers (dual boot)
with the following partitions:

/dev/hdb3    3644        /
/dev/hdb1        45        /boot
/dev/hdb2    49214     /home
none                251    /dev/shm
/dev/hdb8        190     /tmp
/dev/hdb6       1969    /usr
/dev/hdb5        1969    /usr/local

Can I load, for example Fedora Core 4, on these partitions?  Do I have to
repartion my whole drive or delete the stuff on these partitions before
installing?  I take it from what you said, Jim, that you install the whole
system on one partition?

Thanks,

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Ewing Cottrell 3rd" <JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET>
To: "Dave Bazell" <bazell at comcast.net>
Cc: <lug at calug.com>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Upgrading from RH 7.3


> First, you have to choose which OS you want to run. If you want "the
> latest RedHat" you have essentially two chooices:
>
> [1] Fedora Core 4
> [2] CentOS 4.2, which is an unbranded version of Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux. In theory you can also go with "White Box Linux", but their
> distribution/update servers are MUCH slower.
>
> I do my downloading with DAP (www.speedbit.com) under Windows, as well
> as my burning too. I only burn the first CD, and tell Linux to load from
> disk. In the RedHat world, you have to say "linux askmethod" at the
> "boot:" prompt, then later specify the disk and directory that contains
> the ISO images. I use Comcast cable, and a full 4 set CD takes an hour
> or so.
>
> When you boot the first CD, you can boot in Rescue Mode, mount your old
> partition, and do the following:
>
> $ mount /dev/hdxx /mnt
> $ cd /mnt
> $ mkdir OLD
> $ mv .??* * OLD
>
> You will get a complaing about not being able to move OLD to itself, but
> that's to be expexted. Then, when you do the install, simply choose not
> to format the partition.
>
> Of course, while I am against splitting a system up across partitions
> (/, /boot, /usr/, /var, etc), I don't mind chopping up a disk into
> several partitions and running multiple versions of linux (or M$, or
> BSD) in each one. In fact, both of my two internal drives have the full
> complement of 16 partitions each!
>
> JIM
>
> Dave Bazell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have dual boot Windows XP/RHLinux system running RH 7.3 (Valhalla)
with
> > kernel version 2.4.18-3.  I want to upgrade to whatever is the current
RH
> > version since I am more frequently downloading sw that won't compile
becuase
> > I have an old version of something, usually libc.
> >
> > Any suggestions about the best way to do this?  Just install current
version
> > that I download from RH (hours worth of downloading over my cable
modem)?
> > Other approaches?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
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