[Gloucs] Re: [SB] Redhat 9 binary

[Roy M]

Thank you Aaron & Sean for your advice. I will have a ramble round 
before I buy the update.
Roy

In message 
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0405052258450.4512-100000 at acws-0051.cs.bham.ac.uk>, Aaron 
Sloman <A.Sloman at cs.bham.ac.uk> writes
>On Wed, 5 May 2004, Roy M wrote:
>
>> I bought a Linux mag [don't know when there is no date on it, issue 33]
>> anyway, on the front was a free Redhat ver 9 binary.
>>
>> I have just gotten around to installing it - with some little
>> difficulty.
>>
>> It seems to, a newbie like me, to have potential within the way I use a
>> PC. I tried Mandrake, and have bought! M 10; but just cannot get the
>> damn thing to install, anyway I ramble on.
>>
>> What I would like to know is, has anyone installed the redhat 9 binary
>> and followed it up with a full prog purchase, if so did it install OVER
>> the binary ? or does the binary have to be uninstalled first!
>
>Without knowing exactly what was on the CD (I assume it was a CD). It
>may have been a minimal desktop installation of RH 9 without compilers,
>or development tools and a small set of applications.
>
>If you try to get a full RH 9 (e.g. from www.maxtux.co.uk or
>www.linuxemporium.co.uk, or from www.creativechanges.uklinux.net or from
>a friend who already has it) then when you install it from the CD you
>can specify that it is an upgrade, in which case it will install over
>the version you already have. you'll get options as to what you want to
>have installed, and it may or may not fit into the space you have
>already allocated on the hard drive for RH9.
>
>I have installed it on two laptops, one where it was an upgrade from
>Redhat 8, and one where it was a fresh install.
>
>Both worked fine, though on the new laptop I later upgraded the kernel
>to support software suspend and CPU frequency control to extend battery
>life.
>
>Many people will now advise you to go for Fedora instead (the 'free'
>successor to RH 9), but I have no experience of it. See
>    http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/
>
>I don't know if the suppliers listed above still provide RH 9.
>
>Aaron
>
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