Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner wrote on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:04:17AM -0700 : > Content-Description: Mail message body > > Thanks to all for the helpful feedback regarding upgrade vs. clean install. > > I'll check out the forum entries at mandrakeforum and (probably :) give > > upgrade a try first. > > Make sure you allocate the time. It will probably be upwards of 2 hours > depending on how many packages you have installed. It has to upgrade > each one individually which is very time consuming and has a bit to do > with your raw IO speed. If you have SCSI, it will be much faster than > IDE (in general).
Thanks, Todd. Not to worry, though. I never do an update or clean install unless I've got plenty of time to put into it.... :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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