[ale] upgrade RH7.2 to RH7.3

[James P. Kinney III]

Now that everyone else has advised to change to anything but RedHat,
I'll weigh in.

As with anything, the closer to "factory standard" you are, the easier
the upgrade path. If all you have is plain vanilla 7.2 box that you use
as a workstation, boot of the 7.3 CD #1 and upgrade. It will work just
fine. If you have some special stuff installed that RedHat doesn't ship,
you will need to manually upgrade/reinstall those (possibly) afterwards.
If you have been following the  Ximian redcarpet stuff,the upgrade
process will warn you of possible incompatabilities with the gnome
setup. Select "yeah, OK, upgrade it anyway" and when it's all done,
gnome will work just fine.

If you have installed your own version of glibc from a tarball, back up
your data and do a fresh install. 

As a test, I pulled out a Redhat 5.2 cd, installed it, and then upgraded
it to the latest (7.2). It just worked! Again, the closer to a "factory
standard" box you are working from, the easier the upgrade path.

Now the big question is: "Do you need to upgrade?"  If you've been
keeping up with all of the errata for 7.2, you have all of the 7.3
system except the new gnome and KDE stuff. They added a few packages,
and dropped a few others, between 7.2 and 7.3.

Backup your data first. Then do an upgrade. If all hell breaks loose
(doubtful), do a fresh install and restore your data. The worst that can
happen is you learn more.

OK, the WORST that can happen is you get disgusted, wipe the drive and
install XP! Blech!

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