I've never had the experience of "Upgrading". It seems that a complete reinstall is
recommended to eliminate the reported
anomalies. When you do a complete reinstall over a previous version, would you have
to reinstall all of the non-distro software?
Or is there a trick that would reinstate the software you had prior to the complete
reinstall?
Seve
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?
>On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>> Alan....if you need to ask you probably shouldn't. With that
>> said, I've got to say that I'm happy I upgraded. Actually, I've
>> never upgraded as I always do a full install of a new distro. I
>
>I can't say for sure but upgrading instead of doing an install is where most of
>the folks are having their problems. I upgraded first and things went weird,
>KPPP would not work etc; so I said to heck with it and made a complete fresh
>install and haven't had a bit of problem. I can't beleive that the folks at
>Mandrake haven't stepped in and made note of this.
>
>
> -jon-
>
>> believe that's one factor that helps to eliminate at least some
>> of the problems. And I never install a new release in place of
>> my working system, I install it on another partitiion and slowly
>> migrate over to the new version. Eventually I delete the old
>> version. Here's an interesting tidbit, as of a minute ago there
>> have been no updates issued yet (according to my desktop Updates
>> icon), so I guess all of the reported problems must be "operator
>> error" ;-)
>>
>> Alan
>
