On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:16, Lee wrote: > Okay, I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the pack, but I thought I knew the > difference between an install and an upgrade. > > I attempted to upgrade 8.2 to 9.1rc3 (I know, everyone said don't do it) but > that's just me. Then I booted and stalled on kernel panic. > > Since I had no idea what to do next I rebooted on the CD and chose install, > thinking I could look forward to a couple of months of rebuilding all of my > 'stuff'. > > When I rebooted, everything I had done over the past 2 years was there, but > better. I am totally amazed. > > Question is, "What did I do right"? Why was I not stuck putting mail > addresses and everything else back together again? > > Lee
I think you stumbled onto the "secret special upgrade" then - so being that it all runs so unbelievably well and cool and looks so great and everything's basically hunkey-dorey - BACK UP YOUR DATA AND YOUR MAIL AND YOUR EMAIL ADDIES. Because I reckon that if it went TOO well, something bad's coming down the pike... Just IMHO...but I'm dain bramaged. -- Wed Mar 26 17:00:01 EST 2003 17:00:01 up 5 days, 3:47, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.14, 0.10 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** "Trespassers, eh?" -farmer "No, sir. We're amusement park patrons." -Fry "Oooh, that's a wicked sinful place. Tilt-a-whirl's okay, but the rest is mighty wicked." -farmer
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