[ale] install 6.1 or upgrade 5.1

[Christopher S. Adams]

you're in luck
redhat has a nice little upgrade feature
if you make a 6.1 boot disk, or boot from the 6.1 cd, it'll ask you if you
want to install a new system or upgrade a previous one

as far as the installation of XFree86 and kernel upgrades, just mail the
error messages you get to the list, and we'll be glad to help you

Chris

----- Original Message -----
 From: Dahmani nouredine <nour_meteo at hotmail.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 6:14 AM
Subject: [ale] install 6.1 or upgrade 5.1


> hi guys;
>
> I have the redhat 5.1 on pII 266MHz i686 installed with a SiS 6326 agp /
8Mo
> onboard graphic card , i hope now to upgrade it to the 6.1 vesion which i
> download from a anonymous ftp server without losing my data on my PC,
> i try to install it with  the boot.img disk i found a error 'it tell me
that
> it can't read module-info file, what can do to bypass this problem, i'm
> newbie in the redhat linux environement,
> i try to upgrade the kernel 2.0.x to 2.2.x but there is conflict which i
> can't understood and resolve it,
> i try by 1- upgrade mkinitrd, SysVinit*, initscript* (6.1)
>          2- then kernel-headers, kernel-source
>          3- finally the kernel, kernel-ibcs*, kernel-pcmcia*
> by rpm -Uvh --force *
>
> but without succesful, i don't understand well the steps to upgrade, i
> follow help to upgrade 5.0 to 6.0 doc
>
> it's unlisted how can manage this problem to install XFree86, can you tell
> me if there is another solutions
>
> forwarding to hearing from you soon; best regards
>
> thanks.
> nouredine
>
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