On Friday 30 July 2004 04:07, Frank wrote: > The clean install without formating the /home partition will leave > your past work retrievable, I had no problems doing this. [ This > assumes you have a separate /home partition. - Great having it for > things like this.] > > As to 'QingHua' comment about it being better than 9.1 - Not here it > ain't. The problems I have remind me alot of my windows days. At > least MDK10 appears to recover better and lilo has not acted up once > - pluses for carrying on with it. Trouble is it takes a reboot to > recover. Now that is too much like windows. > > Regards > > Frank > > Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. > Registered Linux User # 324213 > > Q.H.Wang wrote: > >Hi people, > > > >I have done an update from 9.1 to 10.0. Basically it's sucessful. > > Almost all the applications I installed with 9.1 are untouched in > > this update, though some of them need to start from scratch (run as > > the first time). There is an exception. Matlab can not start Java > > Virtual Machine, thus the command window disappears. Maybe I need > > to install it again, or maybe I can fix it by just installing Java > > package. Does anyone have similar experience? TIA. > > > >By the way, MDK 10.0 is much better than 9.1. Cheers! > > > >Bests, > > > >QingHua A lot of the problems are probably coming from not doing a clean install. Backup /home to a cd and format /home and everything else for a clean install. -- Regards; Hoyt
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