 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 if you dislike red hat why use it this was a really bad argument against using red hat that makes no sense at all i for one am glad that they a don t overwrite your config files on a whim be glad they don t do some sort of autodetection and changing crap b tell you on rpm upgrade what config files you should look at because formats have changed red hat is not taking it easy on this it s putting control in the hands of you the maintainer of the machine don t be lazy 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 you don t need to backup home if you are careful enough you did put home on a separate partition no just install rhNUMBER and tell it to use the same partition as home and tell it to not format it but keep the data as is if you didn t put home on a separate partition then you really do need to make backups use an nfs or smb mount from another machine to backup and rsync straight to the mount or if that s not possible rsync over ssh it s the best way to make backups these media files are backed up on the cd s they came from it s the other way around your media files are backups of the cd s they came from good luck thomas the dave dina project future tv today URL you know the shape my breath will take before i let it out thomas URL urgent the best radio on the internet NUMBER NUMBER URL _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 