[CLUE-Tech] New Red Hat install

[Michael James Robbert]

If you want you can choose upgrade instead of a new workstation install. 
  It'll find the partitions you already have and just upgrade all RPMs. 
  Otherwise Joe's suggestion is good if you want a fresh install.  And 
yes ext3 is now the default, but fear not, it can convert without data 
loss and if for some reason you don't like it you can convert back.

Have fun!

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

> Adolf, Michael F wrote:
> 
>> I am currently running red hat 7.0 from a second hard disk.  I want to
>> install 7.2 (Workstation) over 7.0, replacing it.  I made a boot disk 
>> from
>> the distribution disk.  After booting from the boot disk and selecting a
>> workstation install, I arrive at the screen which asks if I want red 
>> hat to
>> auto partition my disk or do I want to do it manually.  There is no
>> indication of which disk it will partition.  In fact, I should not 
>> even need
>> to partition since I have a second disk.  How do I make sure it is
>> installing on the correct disk?
> 
> 
> 
> You'll need to do manual partitioning. Yes, you do need to partition as
> far as the installer is concerned. If you just want to overwrite the
> partitions, but keep the same scheme you had before, simply choose
> manual partitioning, select the second disk and then keep the
> partitions you already have.
> 
> Oh -- I believe that the new Red Hat uses Ext3 by default, not Ext2.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Zonker


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