On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:44, you wrote:
> Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades,
>
> In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If
> I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I
> went ahead to installed them, and a lot of times ended up reinstalling
> everything, sometimes the whole system. There was always some
> problem with these packages. Sometimes fixable, sometimes to find
> the cure was soo long and bothersome, that a quick re-install got me
> up an running much quicker. Of course, this way you cannot learn.
> You have no idea what caused the problem. But you have to have your
> working system at any time! You want to access emails, surf the net,
> whatever is your daily task on your computer...Certainly, for most
> of us, not to look at bugs in kde2.1beta. For some people, yes that
> is, but I think they all use the common sense strategy I want to talk
> about...
>
> Then I got tired of it and started to build a new system, what is
> becoming better and better and still keeps every changes I made in
> the configuration files, upgrades etc. I am still going for the
> greatest and latest to try. But I have now two identical system, and
> I ALWAYS install the actual new *very stable* <GRIN> betas on the
> experimental system. And yes, a lot of times there are problems,
> having two systems did not make me a "real Linux guru", but
> certainly saved me a lot of "BIG annoying pain in the A...". Do you know
> why? Because I still have my production system, and everything WORKS
> on that!! And yes I might have to reinstall my "bleeding edge
> -upgraded" system running KDE2.01 alpha-beta-gamma :-)), but this is
> just a little playing for me, and I can decide that the promised new
> upgrade did not work, or gave just a very little advantage, and it
> is not worth to go for...Or it is installed beautifully, and stable
> and ready to use it on my production system.
>
> I only have two different root partition, my /usr/local and home
> partitions reside on different partitions so I can use them from both
> Linux system, if I want...
>
> To be free of the "BIG annoying pain" you only need 1.5 Gigabyte
> hard disk space. Trust me, it is worth it.
>
> Happy new year!
>
> Viktor
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:58:09PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > I know...I'm replying to m own post, but...O well.
> >
> > As a followup to this thread the KDE upgrade from 2.0 to 2.0.1 was a
> > total bust! The dame thing screwed up my partition tables. (And I'd
> > really like to know how that happens.) The re-install took 8 hours...I'm
> > ready for that C4 now. (?:-P)->-<. It's just not worth the aggrivation
> > , time and trouble that upgrading causes.
> >
> > Mark
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001206025807
There you discover how to do it(details).
Civileme
