RE: Mozilla 1.3 and Realplayer plugin

2003-03-25 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
Mozilla 1.3_gtk2 was compiled with gcc 3.2, causing it not to recognize plugins compiled with previous gcc versions. This includes java plugin (you can download jre compiled with gcc 3.2 from blackdown.org) and some others. Pavel. > -Original Message- > From: Antonio Montagnani [mailto:[E

Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread naugaranch
With all the problems I've had with Red Hat 8 - particularly on my server (still not running correctly and updated fully). I've actually considered regressing to 7.2 on my server. Sounds like Red Hat is doing a MS-type end around. Abandon the RH 8.x series and introduce RH 9 because it doesn't h

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
utorak 25. mart 2003. 12:58, naugaranch: > With all the problems I've had with Red Hat 8 - particularly on my > server (still not running correctly and updated fully). I've > actually considered regressing to 7.2 on my server. Well, I think that is why Red Hat introduced enterprise line of oper

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Kelly
naugaranch wrote: > > With all the problems I've had with Red Hat 8 - particularly on my server > (still not running correctly and updated fully). I've actually considered > regressing to 7.2 on my server. This is exactly what I'm facing and exactly the decision I've made. Enigma runs perfectl

Re: SCO and RedHat?

2003-03-25 Thread Loeung Vidol
Thanks, Jason, for your offer. I'll probably have more questions to you in the near future. I'd like also thank those who replied, giving me some idea beforehand. Vidol - Original Message - From: Jason Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:14 AM

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:29:51AM +0100, Andrew Kelly wrote: > > > Will Mendez wrote: > > > > That's pretty impressive what would make them skip a dot release? > > The cynical me says it's to force RHCE recertification. There have already been Red Hat postings about this. Hang on until after

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Charles Curley wrote: > > It's definitely a marketing thing. Not only Mdk but Slack is at 9.x > > and don't forget Solaris is at 9, too. > > Well, HP-UX is at, what, 11 or so? > > And then, there's Emacs, at 21.2. > > If this really is a marketing sthick, that should k

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, naugaranch wrote: > With all the problems I've had with Red Hat 8 - particularly on my > server (still not running correctly and updated fully). I've actually > considered regressing to 7.2 on my server. I would recommend that, if you are going to fall back to the 7.

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Andrew Kelly wrote: > It's sad to see how prevalent MSing is becoming in the Linux namespace. 1) There's no evidence of any Linux company doing anything MS-like. 2) Since the marketing powers of MS are unparalleled, it's hard for any business to not follow some of their "tri

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Kelly
Joe Klemmer wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Andrew Kelly wrote: > > > It's sad to see how prevalent MSing is becoming in the Linux namespace. > > 1) There's no evidence of any Linux company doing anything MS-like. It's probably just a function of our differing perspectives and absolutely not

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Joe Klemmer wrote: > I doubt that. RH 8 works just fine in most situations. It's not > quite as solid in some server situations as 7.3 was but that's likely to > improve with 9. Hard to find just the right place to interject my $.02 All the discussions/go-rounds

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Jason Dale
In my part of the world in the southern hemisphere, Linux became an extremely popular server OS at more or less the same time that the Red Hat 7.x series was out. For us, this was partly why 7.3 was the most popular, but RH 7.3 also *seemed* to be the most 'hassle free' Linux OS or there compared

XDMCP chooser in linux.. as solaris

2003-03-25 Thread Bala murugan
Dear Admins here is my setup we have 150 machines running on windows2000 Prof in our office. also 50 solaris server running for our developement. all windows machine has installed humming Bird exceed software to connect solaris desktop. Now we are planning to go linux instead of windows,to avo

RE: Triple Boot :)

2003-03-25 Thread Galea Gilbert
thanks a lot Guy for your reply. Gilbert -Original Message- From: Guy Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Triple Boot :) Hi If you have ME and XP installed and not conflicting you are ready to go. You can use the pa

Re: XDMCP chooser in linux.. as solaris

2003-03-25 Thread dballester
In my RH8 I can do this executing gdmchooser HTH "Bala murugan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@redhat.com con fecha 25/03/2003 04:17:50 p.m. Por favor, responda a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado por: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destinatarios: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Asunto: XDMCP chooser in linux.. as sola

RE: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Rick Carroll
I have an idea... Why don't we all put our soap boxes back under the desk and get back to administering our systems... huh??? This thread has gone entirely too long... R. -Original Message- From: Jason Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:15 AM To:

moving var

2003-03-25 Thread Marek
Hi I would like to move my /var dir to some free space i have on a drive. How would i achieve this ? -- /Marek /Pawinski.net -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Free Red Hat 9 compared to M$ -- You got to be joking

2003-03-25 Thread ghhalley
Get real, Complaining about a free operating system pulling a M$ thing? You got to be joking or smoking or something. Who cares what happens marketing-wise, it doesn't cost me anything. Let all of those non-techies worry about marketing. I just use what works for me whether its RH 7.3, 8, 9 or

Re: moving var

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:43, Marek wrote: > I would like to move my /var dir to some free space i have on a drive. > How would i achieve this ? Off the top of my head and totally untested... Bring the system into single user mode, unmount /var (if it is on a mount point), move the data

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Andrew Kelly wrote: naugaranch wrote: Sounds like Red Hat is doing a MS-type end around. Abandon the RH 8.x series and introduce RH 9 because it doesn't have a bad reputation. When a release puts a better product in the hands of the consumer it is a good and welcome thing. When a release

Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Cédric Chausson
Hello all, I am interested in updating to RH9. I have two options : _ Doing a full install _ Doing an update instal Up until now I have always used the full install option and not the update possibility. But I have installed a lot of programs and configured a lot of things so I'

[psyche] Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Raul Acevedo
This isn't help on how to upgrade, but... If you use wine, or CodeWeavers CrossOver Office or Plugin, you may want to wait a bit before upgrading. The recent glibc errata update breaks wine. I'm guessing Red Hat 9 will have the newer glibc, which will also likely break wine. (Which by the way w

Re: Crack for MD5 Passwords?

2003-03-25 Thread John Kodis
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:26:44PM -0600, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Crack that runs on RH > 8.0 and deals with MD5 passwords? Crack doesn't seem to be well maintained these days. You might try a program called "john the ripper", which handles md5 hashes

Re: [psyche] Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Edward S. Marshall
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:01:52AM -0800, Raul Acevedo wrote: > If you use wine, or CodeWeavers CrossOver Office or Plugin, you may want > to wait a bit before upgrading. The recent glibc errata update breaks > wine. It breaks a lot more than just Wine. PHP's gdbm functionality no longer works (p

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel T. Drea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Everyone has what they want, except for those who want the same old > thing If you want the same old thing, run Slackware. It hasn't > changed in YEARS. As a consequence, it's a damn pain to maintain

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread jdow
From: "Cédric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello all, > > I am interested in updating to RH9. I have two options : > > _ Doing a full install > _ Doing an update instal > > Up until now I have always used the full install option and not the > update possibility. But I have installed a lot of pr

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Tom Diehl
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Cédric Chausson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am interested in updating to RH9. I have two options : > > _ Doing a full install > _ Doing an update instal > > Up until now I have always used the full install option and not the > update possibility. But I have insta

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:57:24PM +0100, Cédric Chausson wrote: > So I was wondering is the update installation option really feasible. I > seem to remmeber having seen written that it did not work really good ? > > Comments, experiences ? I've seen lots of reports from people that claim it wor

Re: keyboard problem: alt gr key

2003-03-25 Thread William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Sebastian Bauer wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using RedHat 8 for a few weeks and try to stop the need of Windows > products. But now I have a problem which isn't that funny. > > Sometimes - I cannot reproduce the problem - my Alt Gr key doesn't work > the way it should. By pres

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Neil Thompson
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Jason Dale wrote: > In my part of the world in the southern hemisphere, Linux became I'm in the same part of the world, and I've been using Red Hat since the beginning. > All said and done, I am still somewhat concerned myself as to why Red Hat 9 > is popping up so quick

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel T. Drea wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: Everyone has what they want, except for those who want the same old thing If you want the same old thing, run Slackware. It hasn't changed in YEARS. As a consequence, it's a damn pain to maintain. I take offense to tha

RE: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Leonard, Phil
>Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew) >Neil The wise and immortal words of Charlie Papazion work in almost all situations, don't they? Philip -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Cédric Chausson
OK, Thans all for the remarks. I'll try the update way and let everyone know how it went. Le 2003.03.25 20:28, Joe Klemmer a écrit : On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:57, Cédric Chausson wrote: > I am interested in updating to RH9. I have two options : > >_ Doing a full install >_ Doing an updat

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Gerry Doris
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Cédric Chausson wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I am interested in updating to RH9. I have two options : >> >> _ Doing a full install >> _ Doing an update instal >> >> Up until now I have always used the full install option and not the >> update possibility. But I have

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel T. Drea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Daniel T. Drea wrote: > > >On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > > > >>Everyone has what they want, except for those who want the same old > >>thing If you want the same old thing, run Slack

Re: Crack for MD5 Passwords?

2003-03-25 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:11:15PM -0500, John Kodis wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:26:44PM -0600, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > > > Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Crack that runs on RH > > 8.0 and deals with MD5 passwords? > > Crack doesn't seem to be well maintained these days. Yo

Re: Crack for MD5 Passwords?- correction

2003-03-25 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:21:48PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:11:15PM -0500, John Kodis wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:26:44PM -0600, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Crack that runs on RH > > > 8.0 and deals with MD5

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:33:35 -0800, you wrote: >Comparing Red Hat to MS is ridiculous. As far as I can tell, Red Hats >latest decisions, for which they've taken so much heat, are all the >result of actually listening to their customers. While I agree some of the decisions Red Hat has made have

Re: [psyche] Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:40:24 -0800, Raul Acevedo wrote > I do very much the same thing: save everything in /etc, /root and /home > to a separate drive that is untouched by the upgrade, then do a full > install, formatting all partitions except /home. I only do this on > major x.0 releases; for x.y

[psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Raul Acevedo
Gerald Henriksen wrote: > So your average person at home now has a choice of Windows XP at $300 > or Red Hat Enterprise Workstation at $300 ($60 a year after the first > year for access to security fixes). Guess what, XP comes with full > multimedia capabilities including MP3 and DVD, as well

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Raul Acevedo
Mike Vanecek wrote: > Of course, that does not really help all the applications one has > installed that are in /var or /usr (such as chkrootkit, spamassassin, > wormscan, www apps, and so on). Might as well start from scratch. Yep, it pretty much is starting from scratch. For major releases

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Eric Burke
Hi, > I certainly can't recall messages on any of the Red Hat mailing lists > or any survey asking for Red Hat to price their Linux product at the > same price levels Microsoft charges, yet that is exactly what Red Hat > has done (and in at least 1 case when you extend the price over a 3 or > 4 y

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:40:11 -0800, you wrote: >Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > > So your average person at home now has a choice of Windows XP at $300 > > or Red Hat Enterprise Workstation at $300 ($60 a year after the first > > year for access to security fixes). Guess what, XP comes with full > >

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 16:22, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > It just won't be provided after 12 months. Wrong. popular releases will be supported for longer, releases such as 6.2 or maybe even 7.3. If you read the fine print, it's "at least 12 months" not "at the most 12 months". Seems to me tha

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Justin Zygmont
we'll see very soon, at the end of the month 6.2 and 7.0 will expire. I'm curious if there will be any package updates, but I somehow doubt there will. On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 16:22, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > It just won't be provided after 12 mo

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Justin Zygmont
> Obviously no one outside of Red Hat can speak fron actual experience in > updateing to 9. Having said that I can tell you that my experience upgrading > from various versions to the latest and greatest version have for the most > part been very successful. Based on my personal experience I have

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Smith
After 12 months, up2date goes away if you don't use enterprise. THIS THREAD IS GOING OVERBOARD. On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 15:33, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 16:22, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > It just won't be provided after 12 months. > > Wrong. popular releases will be supporte

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:33:03 -0800, you wrote: >On Tuesday 25 March 2003 16:22, Gerald Henriksen wrote: >> It just won't be provided after 12 months. > >Wrong. popular releases will be supported for longer, releases such as 6.2 or >maybe even 7.3. If you read the fine print, it's "at least 12 m

Re: Crack for MD5 Passwords?

2003-03-25 Thread Justin Zygmont
yes, it will do all types.. On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:11:15PM -0500, John Kodis wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:26:44PM -0600, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Crack that runs on RH > > > 8.0 and deal

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:29:04PM -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > So your average person at home now has a choice of Windows XP at $300 > or Red Hat Enterprise Workstation at $300 ($60 a year after the first > year for access to security fixes). Guess what, XP comes with full > multimedia capabi

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:15:58PM -0500, Justin Zygmont wrote: > we'll see very soon, at the end of the month 6.2 and 7.0 will expire. I'm > curious if there will be any package updates, but I somehow doubt there > will. 6.1 support has been terminated for quite a while. We simply grab the 6.

quotas on nfs mounted filesystems.

2003-03-25 Thread Aaron Konstam
We have a series of machines that share the same nfs mounted user directories. This nfs mounted filesystem has quotas enabled on the server and one can indeed run quota on the server to find out your quota. But on the clients the running is supposed to work through a call to rpc.rquotad on the serv

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:29, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > While I agree some of the decisions Red Hat has made have been > necessary and even good (even if Red Hat has screwed up the > implementation and public relations aspects of at least some of them) > they are also apparently ignoring a lot of t

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:22, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > Starting with Red Hat 8.0 errata are only provided for 12 months after > release. The only products with errata periods longer than 12 months > are the products in the Enterprise line. With the average Joe User of Linux being used to

help partitioning

2003-03-25 Thread valeed
hi , I have a 40gb hdd , 128mb ram , pentium 4 1000mhz hp pc of the 40gb i have made two logical partitions , of 22 gb & 18gb 22gb is reserved for windows xp , & on 18gb I wish to install Linux 8.0 ,  i want to have a dual boot & keep the windows xp as it is till I learn more & feel comfo

RE: help partitioning

2003-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Gill
Title: Message For the purpose of learning Linux. I would leave the partitioning to linux. It will create 3 partitions, 1 boot, 1 swap and the rest is for /.   RH8.0 install will automatically create the XP booting ability in GRUB, so that you can boot back to windows if you wish. I would le

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 17:05, Michael Smith uttered: > After 12 months, up2date goes away if you don't use enterprise. Again, I point you to the "At least 12 months" No where does it say you get 12 months, and 12 months _only_ for up2date (RHN) services. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://g

Re: External USB Drive

2003-03-25 Thread Stephen Carville
On Monday 24 March 2003 10:54 pm, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:23:38 -0800 > > > I have been looking at getting an external USB drive for backing up > > files on my home network and I see the Maxtor 3000LE (120 GB) is

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gerald Henriksen wrote: I certainly can't recall messages on any of the Red Hat mailing lists or any survey asking for Red Hat to price their Linux product at the same price levels Microsoft charges, yet that is exactly what Red Hat has done They *have* been asked to provide a platform that will ha

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel T. Drea wrote: Can large numbers of redhat machines be updated with a single comand from one box? That's what RHN is for, basically. It's slackwares package management that I find make it "easier" to keep updated with the latest releases of software. Just as you rely on rhn to supply you up

Re: External USB Drive

2003-03-25 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:06:07 -0800 > On Monday 24 March 2003 10:54 pm, Jack Bowling wrote: > > ** Reply to message from Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, > 24 Mar 2003 20:23:38 -0800 > > > > > I have been looking at gettin

Re: Linux vs Windows

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Smith
I think you made some very good points. I would only like to stress the fact that: 1) a *nix environment is probably the _best_ web server out there... (not to mention the cheapest) 2) linux has, and probably (even though we don't like to admit it) always will be a more complex operating system.

Re: help partitioning

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Smith
You _must_ have winxp installed _first_. I'm not exactly sure why, but that's said everywhere. Then just create a 256 swap partition, and use the rest for the / partition. (Use Disk Druid to partition) -Michael On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:25, valeed wrote: > hi , > I have a 40gb hdd , 128mb ram , pe

RE: Linux vs Windows

2003-03-25 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
thanks. and yes i agree that the linux net and web and ftp and networky stuff is far bettter than windows as i eluded to in my post. And although i do agree that linux and unix systems are a bit more complex than windows, they do not really have to be... what i mean is this... windows does not

apache user can't be created

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel Tan
hi, i am trying to create an apache user and group but i get prompted there is a group by the name of apache and after clicking add to it, the box stays there and doesn't goes off...it just keep looping back to the same box.i tried to locate for such user and group and i use the filter button a

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread C Moss
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:58:15AM -0600, naugaranch wrote: > With all the problems I've had with Red Hat 8 - particularly on my server > (still not running correctly and updated fully). I've actually considered > regressing to 7.2 on my server. > > Sounds like Red Hat is doing a MS-type end arou

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread C Moss
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:31:09PM +0100, Andrew Kelly wrote: > > > naugaranch wrote: > > > > With all the problems I've had with Red Hat 8 - particularly on my server > > (still not running correctly and updated fully). I've actually considered > > regressing to 7.2 on my server. > > This is

Problem with arts in updated KDE

2003-03-25 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
Hi all, I updated KDE to 3.1.1 with packages downloaded from www.kde.org. Since then arts daemon doesnt work, so there is no sound. On KDE startup I get message that /tmp/mcop-root is not owned by user (it is owned by root), arts doesn't start and there is no sound. Of course I tried to delete

Linux vs Windows

2003-03-25 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
This may not be a very structured and organised piece of prose on this issue, but it includes all of what i essentially think on the topic. Please correct me if i am wrong on any particular technical issue. Windows and redhat might cost similar regarding the enterprise edition of redhat vs win

[psyche] Re: [psyche] Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Raul Acevedo
Interesting that it breaks so much. The CodeWeavers email alerting users that the Red Hat glibc errata breaks wine mentioned that CodeWeavers is trying to persuade Red Hat to issue a glibc errata that fixes the security problems but doesn't go from 2.2 to 2.3, hence not also breaking wine and ever

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:57, Cédric Chausson wrote: > I am interested in updating to RH9. I have two options : > > _ Doing a full install > _ Doing an update instal > > Up until now I have always used the full install option and not the > update possibility. But I have installed a l

[psyche] Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Raul Acevedo
I do very much the same thing: save everything in /etc, /root and /home to a separate drive that is untouched by the upgrade, then do a full install, formatting all partitions except /home. I only do this on major x.0 releases; for x.y releases I just upgrade. It works very well. It's nice becau