On Sunday 12 January 2003 18:56, Mark Weaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 12 January 2003 12:05 pm, H.J.Bathoorn scribbled incoherently: > > 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 > > hey Harm! at least you got buttons to click on at that point! :) No > buttons showed up on that panel during the intall, which necessitated me > starting the install all over and choosing "all" in order to get it going. > > The next place I got stuck was shortly after configuring X. I wasn't able > to move on no matter what I did. Just took the chance on restarting the > system and I was able to boot the system. Most, if not all, of the > important things were finished though. And, it didn't want to make a > bootdisk so I had to take care of that the "old-fashioned" way. I'm > grateful for that though because now I'll have that squirreled away for a > rainy day should the need arise. - -- > Mark
Was that an upgrade or a "fresh" install?
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