I currently have Redhat 7.3....I would like to upgrade to 8.0 .....I am feverishly trying to download the iso's right now...I wanted to know if I had to reinstall or can I upgrade by installing RPMs and making changes?

I would never do it that way, but I would like to know?

Anybody know any new mirror sites other than those on linuxiso.org?

Thanks,
Dom

Well of course you can upgrade ... but you shouldn't go by updatng each rpm (single task). instead just insert the first CD and choose "upgrade system" (or update or what it's called in the menu). it works flawlessly and is painless. as a generel recommendation though, backup important configuration files (like maybe your sendmail.mc, etc).

looking for mirrors? well i've used the official mirrors (http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html) as I downloaded RH 8.0 on September 30th (using 10 mirror servers and getright)

I know Windows upgrade installs are horrible and generally give you problems as you use the upgraded OS. Fresh installs are always recommended over doing an upgrade.

Is the upgrade for Linux much stabler? Or is it also preferred to back up all data and do a fresh install here as well? I just installed RedHat 7.3 this week and have yet to really get into it (having problems getting X configured) but I've just downloaded and burned 8.0. Just wondering if an upgrade is fine or is a fresh install recommended instead for better performance.

I have no important data to save, since I've hardly used it yet.

whatever you feel comfortable doing should be do fine. At the moment I am having trouble might do fresh install again I installed some DRI drivers for my radeon to play UT2K3 in linux now X wont start and xconfig didnt fix anything