Non RPM software upgrades

[David Mangani]

Thanks for your detailed answer, I do appreciate your time. I knew that RH 
didn't add other operating systems at installation ( ie. Windows ). My 
misunderstanding seems to have been that making my windows drive available 
was a 2 part process. 1.) Edit my fstab file to designate my windows drive. 
2.) Manually type "mkdir /win-c" ( in my case to match my fstab) actually 
creating the directory in Linux. As I said in my earlier e-mail, I'm learning 
all the time :-) I would like to bring my box to the meeting. It is Sunday at 
1? and at 100 S. Elmwood correct.

Thanks again
Dave

On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:54 pm, Cyber Source wrote:
> That depends whether the install routine for the upgrade was written to
> install to the install location of the previous install. If you have a
> compile routine, read the README or INSTALL file. If you have an rpm,
> you can "less" the rpm and see where it will put the files.
> As far as your install goes, RedHat does not add other operating systems
> automatically to your fstab file but will add it to your boot loader,
> lilo or grub. As far as other removable media goes, like cdrom's and
> floppies, even zip drives, the correct mount points are probably already
> in your fstab file, so by just right clicking on a blank area of your
> desktop (gnome), you will see a shortcut for disks, then select which
> one, be it floppy, cd, whatever. Make sure you have something in the
> drives first. It will then put a shortcut to that drive on the desktop,
> when your done, right click on the icon and say eject, even for
> floppies, although you still have to push the button to get it out, it
> will finish writing to the device that way prior to unmounting, that is
> very important because when you copy stuff to your floppy, it may not
> write it immediately. You should come to the meeting on Sunday and bring
> the box, it will be well worth it to you and I can show you tons of
> stuff to get that RedHat 9 box rockin.
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 19:44, David Mangani wrote:
> > Thanks for the information and the quick reply. I'm learning all the
> > time. The problem I had with the HDD was that I assumed during
> > installation that information was picked up, just as the CD, floppy etc
> > were picked up. I didn't have to manually create those mount points.
> > Still, as always, learning.
> > 	Would upgrading software loaded this way simply overwrite the older
> > version, or should you delete the older version first?
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Dave
> >
> > On Wednesday 16 July 2003 06:55 pm, Cyber Source wrote
> >
> > > uninstalling a compiled program is as simple as deleting the directory
> > > where it is. In Linux you always have to have a mount point for data,
> > > whether it be floppy, cd, hdd whatever
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 17:28, David Mangani wrote:
> > > > 	I installed Netscape 7 from CD ( I had laying around from windows
> > > > and noticed it had a linux version as well ). It was not in rpm
> > > > format, I think it was ./instal and then an installation wizard
> > > > pretty much did the rest. How would I now either remove this program
> > > > or upgrade it to a newer version since it wasn't installed with RPM.
> > > > Is it very difficult to do?
> > > >
> > > > 	Secondly, I have been struggling to get RH9 to see my windows drive.
> > > > ( It is on its own HDD ) I tried mounting it manually, edited the
> > > > fstab file, tried all different options, filesystem types
> > > > vfat,dos,etc. NOTHING worked. Kept getting no mount point defined.
> > > > Anyways, googled mount point found my answer in like 2 seconds
> > > > ugggggg. All I had to do was mkdir /win-c to match the entry I made
> > > > in fstab. I have several books on RH and nowhere was there a mention
> > > > of having do mkdir to gain access to windows or anyother file/system
> > > > to be mounted. I guess sometimes the best lessons are the ones we
> > > > learn from missing obvious things.
> > > >
> > > > Dave.