how to install Rawhide?

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Adam Dingle <adam@medovina.org> writes:

> I discovered Red Hat's Rawhide FTP directory
> (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/) not long ago, and I've
> successfully grabbed a few packages from it and installed them on top of my
> Red Hat 7.2 installation.  OK, so now I've decided I'm ready to head further
> out onto the bleeding edge - I'd like to install Rawhide in its entirety.
> So I'll download all 1.3 Gb of Rawhide RPM's overnight, format a fresh
> partition on my hard drive for the install, and then - then what?  The
> README in the Rawhide FTP directory doesn't give me a clue as to how to get
> started.  Is there some way that I can use one of the boot images from Red
> Hat 7.2 and point it at the directory containing the Rawhide RPM's - or do I
> need to use some other approach?
> 
> ANY advice would be very much appreciated.  Thanks!

There is no installer for it... install RHL 7.2 w/updates, then
upgrade gcc, glibc, binutils, rpm and then the rest.

-- 
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.





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