On Friday 12 November 2004 04:50 pm, Jack wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >On Thursday 11 November 2004 05:54 pm, Jack wrote: > >>5 - Most damning of all was my attempted upgrade to 10.1 official. I > >>completely wiped my drive to do a clean install, and after everything > >>was said and done, the official version could not find the internet, nor > >>my onboard (Asus P4P800) sound card. > >>10.0 had no trouble finding these 2, nor did the community version of > >>10.1. Luckily for me, I had imaged the drive beforehand, so I was able > >>to go back to 10.1 community. > > > >Sounds like a configuration problem. BTW, you could have upgraded to > > official by changing your urpmi sources to 10.1 official location and > > just use 'urpmi --auto-select' to bring it up. This would have saved all > > of you > >configuration settings, and probably would have avoided the problem. > > Good point Greg but I dislike "upgrading." I always prefer to do a > clean install. My experience has been (up to now) that there are less > problems this way.
I tend to agree, especially when moving from point release to point release, but moving from 10.1CE to 10.1OE is more like applying security updates than a wholesale upgrade. > > >I hope I didn't come across as a flame. I just find the level of > > expectation that people have to be astounding. Many people expect to be > > able to pop in the disk and have everything work out of the box without > > doing any configuration work, anything less than that is failure. > > Not me... I already have installed and removed Fedora, Knoppix (CD > version), Slackware (now that was difficult!) and Mandrake. I returned > to Mandrake because I found it best. (I would have tried Xandros or > Lindows if I wanted a Windows clone.) > Even though your post got my cockles up, and it was the subject more than the actual content (you did have some nice things to say), I am very pleased at the mature nature of this thread. This is the kind of discussion and discourse that I enjoy. Thank you for coming back and engaging in discussion instead of just throwing out a troll and leaving, as so many before you have done. -- /g
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