running mpeg files

[Keith Mastin]

> On Friday 14 November 2003 12:56 pm, Keith Mastin wrote:
>> > "install 7.3 then upgrade"  --  that's easy to say, but how do you go
>> > about upgrading 7.3 to get to a configuration that could accept
>> binaries
>> > prepared say for 9.0?
>>
>> From the cd's, just like a regular install only choose the upgrade
>> option.
>> The binaries are compiled with different versions of gcc, so the
>> libraries are different too.
>
> You are braver than me.  Has this procedure caused problems for you with
> any of the systems you have upgraded this way?  I have some systems that
> I would like to get more up to date, but had always thought that the
> upgrade option would be too dangerous.

I've upgraded a few redhat machines like this, with the only real problems
that I can remember off the top of my head is when I (stupidly) had Ximian
Gnome installed.

As long as /home and all your $user_data are not on the / filesystem there
should be no problems, although I can't say for sure if you will have
problems if /home is on /.

-- 
Keith
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