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How to upgrade from 7.2 to 9.0
Name: a fan Date: December 9, 2003 at 16:11:02 Pacific OS: RedHat 7.2 CPU/Ram: 256MB
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Hi,
I want to upgrade my RedHat from 7.2 to 9.0? I have no idea where to start.
Name: Andrew3 Date: December 9, 2003 at 17:51:34 Pacific
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First of all you will probably want Fedora (which is basicly red hat 10, they just changed the name) you can get it at: http://fedora.redhat.com/ But if you really want 9 you can get it from redhat.com. To upgrade, first download the iso files for either red hat 9 or fedora, then burn them to cds, then reboot the computer with disc 1 in the cd-rom drive, then when the disc has loaded press enter to install in graphical mode, and it will ask you if you want to do a clean install or upgrade.
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Response Number 2
Name: a fan Date: December 9, 2003 at 18:21:52 Pacific
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Any idea how much space it will take to upgrade?
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Response Number 3
Name: Andrew3 Date: December 10, 2003 at 07:20:04 Pacific
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About 1.8gb (1800mb) for a Personal Desktop.
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Response Number 4
Name: Deputy DooDah Date: December 10, 2003 at 09:44:33 Pacific
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Have any of you guys actually done the upgrade? I'm considering doing it rather than doing a fresh install and I'm wondering if folks have run into problems.
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Response Number 5
Name: Bill Zhao Date: December 11, 2003 at 23:23:48 Pacific
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I guess you will suceed 99% if you upgrading using cdrom.I upgrade RH6.0 to RH6.2 to RH7.1 one rpm package by one rpm package. Never meet a problem. As per my experiece, if you don't change the harddisk partitions, it is very very safe to upgrade to new version.
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