On Wednesday 27 Oct 2004 19:16, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > Yes, and upgrade _should_ give you exactly the same end result as a clean > install. There should be no difference other than the upgrade being faster > (due to not having to reinstall packages that are already up to date). > > But history has shown repeatedly, at least for Mandrake, that this is _not_ > true. Perhaps Stephen Kuhn, Hoyt Bailey, or others will pitch in here with > their personal experiences (based upon which I have never even attempted a > version upgrade, always a clean install). > > I also suspect the first response back from any bug report will be "Have > you tried a clean install of 10.1 Official?"
<sigh> You're probably right, but after 2 installs of it I just can't bring myself to start yet again - at least not just at this moment. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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