-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> A fresh install is always the better option, often less time > consumming and better results than a (theoretically maybe possible) > upgrade. 'Sides, it's probly time to do some house cleanin anyhow ;) > > Cooker/9.0 is very dynamic now (ie, beta2 [current cooker] isn't > compatible with 9.0beta1). Many gcc (-> 3.2) and lib changes. I'd say > only a fresh install is feasible. Further, It'sME that savin your 8.2 > /home dir as is, won't suffice either. You'll probly need to save > important stuff (ie, /Mail, some other ./xxx and configs for apps like > KNode, Pan, stuff like that), personal stuff. Then move into your new > /home incrementally, testing as you go. Many 3rd party OSS apps aren't > ready for gcc3.x, so you'll probly need to get fresh versions and > recompile. OTOH, the new versions for many of those apps are on the > beta1 CD's, so NBD there. Closed-source stuff, proprietary 3rd party > apps and drivers will most likely also fail (eg, flash, java, nvidia, > SO, etc.). Some of those are being, or can be rebuilt for the newer > distros tho. Specially since it's not just Mandrake that's quickly > moving to newer kernels, libs, gcc, and so on. > > As to bugs, there's always some, but IME even early June alpha's of > 9.0 are even better than 8.2 as released, and 8.2 was a solid release. What I did was: - - reboot to the command line and move .kde and .kde3 to .kde_82 and .kde3_82 - - keep everything else in /home unchanged and unmoved - - put the first CD in the drive, reboot and install 9.0 beta 1, formatting / and /swap but not /home - - once installed boot to Gnome 2 and move things from .kde3_82 into .kde3 ad lib - - then reboot to KDE 3. Because KDE 3 is now the default version, so has moved from /opt as installed with 8.2, I think trying to upgrade while keeping .kde and .kde3 intact is too risky (possibility of lots of paths in configuration files breaking) ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9QvEdXzGCRjP1DsMRAiyTAJ0cFlBbp9oKpLdqQeORXvf1G5dVlwCfRsP6 UXQu+0hY48jG4gXe07mcoKs= =7IqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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