Hi All, Just installed RH 6.2 the other day and it is working fine. If I could just find out how to shrink the size of the icons at the bottom of the screen I would like it better, it uses Gnome. Clay Stapleton Patrick Stoddard wrote: > > --- "J.L.Francois" > wrote: > > > > > > > > I would be interested in hearing other > > peoples experiences with system upgrades > > that didn't involve reboots or > > reconstructing config files from backups > > by hand. > > I just went from Red Hat 6.1 to 6.2 with a CD, and > as it upgrades the packages it writes a file > /tmp/upgrade.log with all the packages that were > updated, listing any configuration files that were > changed (the old ones get an .rpmsave appended to > them) and any other configuration file that was not > changed but installed as part of the process (those > have an .rpmnew after the name). This way, you can > compare the files that were on the system to those > from the new install, and either use the new ones > with any other customizations you might want to put > in them, or revert to the old files. > > Not a bad process, although Red Hat has a knack of > putting on some stuff even if you did not select it. > I use GNOME and I ended up with the latest GNOME > stuff and all the kde-related packages after the > upgrade. I keep the bare minimum of KDE-related > stuff on the drive if I want to run programs intended > for a KDE environment, but I don't need competing > versions of tools that would be supplied in both > GNOME and KDE. > > I have not tried the RH 6.2 CD for an install on a > new system yet, wonder how that works compared to the > minor glitches in RH 6.1...... > > Back to work..... > > Patrick Stoddard > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss