evolution - getting/sending mail - DISASTER

[Jeffrey Pyne]

On Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:47 PM, mazdaracer wrote:

> Well it appears I do need to upgrade now. My system's so 
> messed up with various rpm installs.  I tried Red Carpet, 
> but 2 packages couldn't be resolved so I sent that bug 
> report in.

We should be able to get this going without re-installing the O.S.  That's a
Windows solution.  :)  

What exactly happened when you tried to install Red Carpet?  What packages
could it not find?  Did you try downloading and installing them, first?
 
> So the next question is - what's the recommended method to 
> upgrade from 7.3 to 8?

If you do decide to upgrade to RedHat 8.0 (and there's not necessarily
anything wrong with that-- I upgraded to RH8 a few months ago and have been
running it trouble-free ever since), you should be able to download the 5
ISO's from redhat.com, burn them to CD-Rs, pop in the first disc and go
through the Upgrade process.  I usually do a clean install when I upgrade,
but when I went from RedHat 7.3 to RedHat 8.0, I decided to do an upgrade
instead.  The process was very easy, and I had only a couple minor problems.
YMMV, of course, so make sure you have a good backup before you start.

~Jeff