On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 17:41, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 09:24, Merlin Zener wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've just got hold of 4 Mandrake 10.0 CDs; I'll be upgrading from 9.0, > > and I wanted to ask if there's anything particular I should [or should > > not] do to ensure a smooth transition. > > > [...snip] > There's a lot of ways of doing this the right way and a lot of opinions too:) > > Upgrading 9.0 -> 10.0 will probably give a lot of trouble as they use very > different kernels. I wouldn't advise it anyway, a clean install is the best > way.......that is, if you've got your /home on a separate partition. > > Doing a clean install whilst retaining your /home partition will have you lose > previously installed 3rd party software which is usually installed in /usr. > > The way I prefer working is to set-up an new install on a new partition on its > own without any creating any users and mounting the old /home partitions in a > later stage......which has some pitfalls too, as always:) > > Installing 10.0 left me with an XP that wouldn't boot normally (it will in > safemode though and after that it's OK). It happens everytime after using > diskdrake. No big deal for me - I only boot XP if I have to help out some > poor stuck XP sod- but others might get a bit ruffled:) >
this is just the kind of thing that scares me - I need the win stuff for my music programs. > Lilo has to be changed and will be, otherwise 10.0 can't be booted! > > To be really helpful we'd need to know what your partition setup is, so let's > start with that,heh? Otherwise we'd be rewriting the installation manual all > over. well I'm not sure how to find out, so I copied this from the KDiskFree display: /dev/hda1 ntfs 7.8GB /mnt/nt 889.3MB 88.9% /dev/hda5 vfat 22.6GB /mnt/windows 3.2GB 86% /dev/hda6 ext3 980.5MB / 798.8MB 18.5% /dev/hda8 ext3 3.8GB /usr 2.3GB 40.2% /dev/hda9 ext3 2.7GB /home 730.1MB 73.8% /dev/hdc1 auto 74.5GB /mnt/hd 17.6GB 76.4% /dev/sda1 auto N/A /mnt/removable 0B N/A Is this the info you wanted? -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. "...if my calculations are correct..."
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