On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
> > I'm not worried about stability per se. I'm worried about the upgrade
> > process screwing things up. I've heard that the upgrade process is not
> > transparent, in the sense that packages get updated and the amount of
> > tweaking to get the installation to the same configuration state is
> > minimal.
>
> Have you purchased a copy of RH? If so, I wouldn't worry. Your entitled
> to 30 days install support. $50 is small change for the insurance it
> provides.
I am going to buy the boxed set from my U's bookstore. Will I qualify for
support, or do I have to get it directly from Red Hat? Last time I
considered buying directly from Red Hat there was an absolutely ridiculous
shipping charge involved (I live in Canada). I recall being quoted a
shipping charge of $40-$50.
>
> > Using 2.1.x kernels is a calculated risk I've taken, particularly since I
> > was not impressed with the SMP support in 2.0.x. Besides, the more people
> > are testing SMP code, the better.
>
> True, and understandable.
>
> > I forgot to mention that I am limited by hard disk space.
> > Unfortunately I can't afford the luxury of more hard drive space right
> > now.
>
> Well, I know how that is, but it is honestly a bit ironic. How much was
> your SMP box? :) That's not an entry-level system, especially when
> entry-level HDD cost like $129.
I've been doing incremental upgrades. First I had an overclocked P75.
Then last fall I bought another P75 and a Tyan Tomcat IV motherboard.
Last weekend I bought 2 P200MMX chips. :)
Hard drives are next in line for upgrades. What more can I do.. I'm a
broke student. :)
I do start work on Monday... which means a paycheque two weeks later...oh
the possibilities. :)
>
> Incidentally, I was considering an SMP box, as the price has drastically
> dropped. Do you find a noticable real-life improvement in performance?
Yes, in particular if you do compilations with make -j3. Compilations are
'real-life' activities for me. :)
I'm sure that anyone would get some kind of performance gain, no matter
what they do, but the real gain would come if more programs were threaded.
At least linking with glibc takes us part way to that goal.
Actually this is the reason why I want to upgrade to 5.x, I'm expecting
some kind of gain in performance since glibc is reentrant.
Also is XFree linked against glibc?
>
> > > - Download the 5.0 glibc libs from sunsite, and install them in an
>
> > I've tried this, but I have not been successful so far. I will be trying
> > this again. But RedHat claims that it is possible to upgrade 4.2 ->5.0.
>
> Of course its possible to do the upgrade. And frankly, if your upgrading
> _only_ from 4.2 to 5.0, and haven't done any serious modifications, I
> really doubt you will have much trouble.
I just wanted to cover as many possibilities before the fact.
>
> We're 5 months into this release, and I'm sure thousands of people have
> done an upgrade. If you were talking about upgrading from a 2.0 release,
> I might suspect there to be a problem or two. But 4.2 is well known, and
> 5.0 is quite established now.
>
> > I've not heard encouraging things about the upgrade process. I know a
> > clean install is almost flawless, but I am not willing to lose a working
> > system. At the same time, I do want to upgrade. Hence I am asking
> > whether the upgrade process will be improved in 5.1.
>
> Yes, I'm sure people have had problems with the upgrade. I'm also sure
> that we didn't see all the bug reports that were posted by registered
> users, and the fixes RH made to their most recent install that fixes those
> problems.
>
> Yes, 5.1 I would imagine will have a better install/upgrade program.
:)
I'm sold.
>
> If you have a backup device, copy your most important files to that first.
Sigh. That's #2 on the list, after the hard drives.
Martin.
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