On Tuesday 02 January 2001 03:08 am, you wrote:
> 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
Do it? <big grin> Are you refering to learning how to make C4, or properly
install bleeding edge beta KDE rpms?
either way thanks...I'll check it out.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
