On Wednesday, May 09, 2001, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Updating an Mdk 7.2 to 8.0 system has always crashed out (tried on three
> different systems now) and always left the system in an unusable state.
> The option to update an existing ``live'' system piece-by-piece Debian
> style would be good, but to do this you would have to redefine a lot of
> packages to be less specific about what dependent packages they require.
> Maybe for 8.1?
I'm no expert or anything, but from what I've read, a LOT of libraries
and such have been changed in 8.0, hence the 7.2 -> 8.0 problems. This
was apparantly done to make updates in the future much better. So
hopefully a 8.0 -> 8.1 or an 8.x -> 9.0 will be much easier.
I've decided to just back stuff up and repartition when I update either
this weekend or next week. I have an iching to try ReiserFS anyway. =)
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