From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 13:49:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC1C37B413 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a113.otenet.gr [212.205.215.113]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8HKnKV13960; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:49:20 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8HJ9V406597; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:09:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:09:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nathan Mace Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD over Redhat Linux? Message-ID: <20010917220929.A5710@hades.hell.gr> References: <200109170614.f8H6EVv65208@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20010917113831.3564a20d.nmace85@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010917113831.3564a20d.nmace85@yahoo.com>; from nmace85@yahoo.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:38:31AM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathan Mace wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 02:14:31 -0400 (EDT) > "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > > 2) the only way to upgrade from redhat 7.1 to 7.2(when it comes out) > > > is to wipe out everything and re-install. > > > > No, Red Hat supports an upgrade install. You boot from the CD-ROM, > > then tell the install program to do an upgrade instead of a fresh > > install. You MUST NOT try to upgrade from a pile of loose RPMs! > > Hmmm, I'm guessing that this is exactly what you did. > > > > If you would like to upgrade a live Linux system, you need to be > > running Debian. In that case, even /sbin/init and the C library > > may be fully upgraded without a reboot. > > > > yes, the system i was trying to upgrade did have a number of 3rd > party rpms installed, if thats what you mean. but having a number > of ports installed on bsd doesn't mess up an upgrade does it? i > think not Ports are /not/ third party stuff in FreeBSD. The analogy does not properly fit here. Something analogous to third party RPM packages would be .tgz packages that you grab from a random site and pkd_add to your FreeBSD box. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message