If you start the install process and select "Upgrade"... Mandrake attempts to preserve all of your existing settings. Normally nothing is lost and your configuration remains the same. There is one drawback to this... sometimes newer config files are needed to take advantage of newer features... so after an upgrade you should look at the files the upgrade would like to use... It saves the "new" files with a suffix like .rpmorig or something like that to let you know which ones to look at. Compared to Winblows most Mandrake/Redhat upgrades are painless! -JMS -----Original Message----- From: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Upgrading Mandrake to a higher version in the future Will, I have the ability to upgrade Linux Mandrake 7.0 to a higher number or do I have to overwrite the earlier. What will happen to my files. In addition, I was hoping to update the recent patches. However, they will not download as an update?? Don't kill me if this has been asked before. Roman
