matthias saou matthias egwn net wrote as red hat does i really don t recommend trying to upgrade between betas or from a beta to a final release either simply backup your home etc and root and or usr local if needed then reinstall cleanly it ll probably save a few hassles and you ll get the cleanest possible system i think this is probably the best way because i think maybe with upgrading you do not always automatically get the latest feature enabled in some config file because rh would rather take it easy and not update that config file you get a rpmnew instead of rpmsaved file so they get less calls to support that way anyway i have tons of media files in home probably NUMBER to NUMBER gigs at least my laptop s cdrom takes NUMBERmb at a time obviously and compressing media files is dumb because they are already compressed dumb question how to backup huge data network backup to another box i do not have a box with a tape drive but maybe box with a large hd with much free space could take the backup oops i do not have a space computer with a large hd with much free space these media files are backed up on the cd s they came from yes i learned that used cds make inexpensive backup copy on the shelf i do not want to re rip all this crap again that s angle as in geometry _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 