[ale] RH5.2 -> 6.1

[Eric Z. Ayers]

I have heard of people trying to do this before and I think it is a
bad idea.  The reason why I think that is because there is one library 
(glibc)that all programs link into that for (some reason) the
developers keep  making incompatible with prior releases.  They did
this between libc5 and glibc 2, and they did it again with glibc2.1.
When you get around to installing that library, your netscape and
window maker will work, and a lot of other stuff is going to break.

Also, when the redhat install disks run, they are not running from the
libraries they are installing, which will eventually make a big 
difference...  

-Eric.

Michael B Golden writes:
 > I currently have RedHat 5.2 installed and I'm trying to upgrade to 6.1 by
 > automatically downloading individual RPMS during the night and then
 > choosing which to install. As I get them, I install what I can, and now
 > it is starting to cause problems. For example, WindowMaker 0.61 will work
 > fine, but when I go to exit it, it comes up with a box telling me that it
 > crashed. I can choose to exit and dump core, but it is kind of annoying.
 > Secondly, I downloaded the Netscape Common and Netscape Communicator 4.7
 > RPMS and tried to run netscape-communicator but it dies with a
 > segmentation fault every time regardless of whether I am running as root
 > or not. I am thinking it has something to do with libraries even though
 > it didn't fail any dependencies. Does anyone know which ones I should
 > download to fix it?
 > 
 > System Stats:
 > 486DX2 66
 > 36M RAM
 > RH5.2 with 7-8 RH6.0 RPMS and about 20 RH6.1 RPMS.
 > 2.2.12 kernel
 > 
 > Anything else I forgot to mention that is relevant?
 > 
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