[KLUG Members] New on BSware this week.

[Ralph M. Deal]

Hello, all BS 7.2 users:

I've had an unfortunate problem in upgrading my RH7.1 to RH7.2.
[using BSware of course].  One rpm could not be loaded; then a crash
occurs after about 60% of the rpms have been loaded.  While I've saved the
crash data as suggested, I don't know how to use it.  When starting the
update, I am warned that my partitions are not what was expected but that
I could proceed.  I can get to my files in the rescue mode and can update
whatever rpm's I wish.  Actually the latter is a little dificult since
the new rpm's (pine for example) use more recent libraries but I can't
upgrade those since other programs depend on the older libraries.  My
solution has been to force the installation of the new rpms, leaving the
old rpm's intact.  Not efficient use of disk space but so far it works.

Right now I need to look at a gnumeric file.  I can't get into the
Xwindows mode so I can't run gnumeric.  I can transfer the file to a
floppy (alas, not a zip disk) and so take it to a non-crippled machine but
I have no access to another LINUX machine and I don't believe Excel on my
wife's more powerful system running ME will be able to read the
gnumeric file.

I may have to start a new installation but would appreciate any guidance
at this awkward moment.

	Best;,   Ralph     deal@kzoo.edu