i would suggest installing fresh; upgrading has yet to work for me on a few tries. and yes, you can safely keep your user info in /home/username.
i always use expert mode even though expert is definitely a relative phrase here *g*. i'm not sure if "recommended" will give you the option of selecting which partitions to overwrite and which to save (ie /home). give expert a try; the worst that can happen is you'll have to kill it and start over, and you've already indicated you have nothing critical that must be saved. it's really not as scary as the name implies *s*. hth, joe --- Original Message --- From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] preparing to install 9.0 >Greetings everyone, > >I have succeeded in downloading the Mdk 9.0 iso's and burning them to cd. :) I did the downloading and burning on a WinXP box, and used md5summer.exe to check the iso's. All seems to have gone OK. > >I've been using 8.2 for a while, but I would like to ask what is my best option to install 9.0: should I wipe out my 3 partitions and reinstall 9.0 fresh, or can I safely save my /home partition from 8.2 to be used in 9.0? >I really don't have any valuable data, but it would be nice to save my preferences. I do want to do it the way that will insure the best install however. > >Also, should I go with the "recommended" installation, or try the "expert" mode? I'm not too sure about trying anything that requires I be an "expert" just yet.;) >I want to install everything that is required to build rpms from source.....is that possible? If I choose to install the "development package", will that be close to getting me there? > >Any thoughts?? >TIA. > > > >--Angus > >"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James Thurber > >Reg. Linux User #278931 >-- >__________________________________________________________ >Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ > >Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ > >Powered by Outblaze >
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