[Gloucs] Re: [SB] Redhat 9 binary

[Tom Walker]

Francis Barton wrote:

> Quoting Roy M <Roy at Farm3.demon.co.uk>:
> 
> 
>>Thank you Aaron & Sean for your advice. I will have a ramble round 
>>before I buy the update.
>>Roy
> 
> 
> The following link might also be of interest to wearers of the Hat:
> http://www.serverwatch.com/news/print.php/3350491
> 
> Francis
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
>>>>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!
> 
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
>>>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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Hi,
It may be a bit late to suggest it, but, I did this year buy Redhat 9 on 
DVD from http://www.linuxcentral.com. The next week Fedora came out on a 
magazine cover so I was a bit miffed to have wasted the money. If you 
really want  Redhat 9 you can just head over to linuxcentral and type 
"linux 9" in the search engine there. They can't use the name Redhat so 
they just call it Linux 9.
Incidentally I did an update install with Fedora on top of RH9 just for 
fun and it seemed to work without a problem. But I guess that was not 
your exact question.

Tom