Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Wow! > > With all the conversations here, and some things on my system, I am > seriously thinking of taking another drive, install 4.4 on it, and then > move my /home partition (I planned for such eventualities by putting > /home on its own partition). Why the rush to upgrade? I've just installed 4.3, you can safely bet I'm not going to reinstall. I will deal with the problems that matter to me, ignore the rest. However many problems there have been with 4.4, probably most of them don't bite a large proportion of users. > > Couple of questions: > > I did my current build with a ks.cfg on a floppy. > > Can I use the same information for 4.4 as I did for 4.3? That is > none of the packages are version specific it seems. Yes. Likely with 5 too (with minor revision to the packages). > > How can I figure out what I have added and add that to my ks.cfg? rpm -qa --last. > > yum listgroup and yum list and compare to the content of ks.cfg? > > Is jre supplied by sun in this release? I really have a mess with > Firebird. It is not recognizing the java plugin. is it in RHEL? I wouldn't think so. Maybe in an additional repo. > > I am going to go over my install notes again.... The hardest thing is config changes. rpm -Va can help, but it's not perfect. If you have/want to have a new drive, clone the system and upgrade the clone. If it breaks, you get a chance to try plan b. btw Assuming USB2 (or the willingness to run it overnight), Knoppix on CD is a top way to clone disks. You need a USB2 enclosure; plug it in and play away with dd (good if the target's larger and you only want to resize the last partition, parted which can do magic stuff and/or ntfs utils, ace if you have NTFS partitions. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list