Just to make sure: If I do a totally clean install of 9.1b1 without any other OS on the system, is lilo going to have any problems?
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 17:05, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Azrael ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002
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