[CLUE-Tech] Upgrading to Red Hat V7.2 - Experiences?

[Jeremiah Stanley]

> Has anybody had serious problems with upgrading their Red Hat V7.0 PCs
> to V7.2?

Nope, I'm loving it. I actually have DRI/DRM support under XFree 4.1 out 
of the box and the ext3 filesystem is easy to manage and works like a 
charm (I actually tried kicking the cable out of the wall to see if it 
worked as advertised, and it does).

>  Have not seen any in-depth reviews of RH V7.2 of late. I have one
> production PC that I would like to upgrade, but between the kernel
> change (to 2.4.x) and the filesystem change (ext2->ext3) I'm concerned
> that they upgrade process may kill the PC altogether.

I've never been fond of the upgrade option that RH puts together. If you 
actually use the system for work/programming then you most likely have 
installed updated RPM's and played/broken the configs as RH sees them. The 
best way to get upgraded is to backup your data and blow a new instal 
down. My $.02...

As for the CD-ROM, it sounds to me like you have a pre-ATAPI drive and 
that's why the CD doesn't want to boot. Poo on RH for not supporting that 
older hardware though. But, if you have your heart set now CD's aren't 
that expensive...

JStanley
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