On Sunday 12 January 2003 14:48, Azrael wrote: > I don't have the space to run 9.1b1 as well as 9. > > I don't need an incredibly stable os for daily use.. heck.. so is it > possible to upgrade 9.0 to 9.1b1 > Or do I need a clean install. > If I do a clean install, any problems keeping my current /home > partition? > > thanks
I've just upgraded a 9.0 with 9.1b1 as I had 9.0 installed twice anyway. I've found some hitches but overall everything works fine, even the shared /home and /var partitions with other distribs and versions. The main hitch at the first boot was my geforce video card. The Nvidia drivers weren't there anymore (which was to be expected) so I had to run XFdrake again to mend that. Overall it seems to be working OK. A word of warning though: During install after choosing the groups of packages to update, there's no going back. If you click "previous" it goes on to install anyway. So choose well (or all) I forgot to select Gnome that's why I wanted to go back:o( Skipping lilo installation apparently isn't possible and the lilo it installs has all the old entries (like win4lin, old-linux, etc.) but they all pointed to the same hd partition:o( So keep a copy of your /boot directory and of /etc/lilo.conf. That way you'll know what the entries looked like and where they were pointing. Good luck, HarM
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