5. Upgrading

5.1 How do I upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1?

If you have 2.0 installed now and purchased the 2.1 CD-ROM, you can run the ``upgrade'' script on the CD-ROM. There are a few caveats, however. First of all, you should change to runlevel 1 to do this. This can be done with telinit 1 as root. This will take you off the network (if any) and kill any unnecessary processes.

You must remember to install the pythonlib RPM by hand off the CD-ROM. It most likely will not install itself like it should.
Because /etc/passwd and /etc/group are config files, the upgrade procedure will replace them with the default ones. To fix this, just copy /etc/passwd.orig to /etc/passwd and /etc/group.orig to /etc/group.

You will be presented with a list of config files that have been changed at the end of the upgrade. You may want to move some of them back to their original locations if the formats of the files haven't changed. A quick look at the new one and your old one should reveal whether or not this has happened.

If you want to upgrade an installed 2.0 system via FTP, you can also do that. Your machine must be on the net via PPP or ethernet. Be warned, this could take quite some time via PPP!

You should find misc/ftp-upgrade on any Red Hat mirror. Just download this file and read the header and make any necessary changes. Then run the script. Thanks to Shane McCarron for the script!

5.2 I upgraded 2.0 to 2.1 and now Glint doesn't work. Why?

You most likely didn't get the new pythonlib RPM installed. Install it and it should work again.

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