On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:49 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Grant Fraser wrote: > > > I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade > > > to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install "setup" which > > > conflicts with "bash" and I cant force it. > > > > > > Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes > > > 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I tried to do that I just > > > got bad disks and actually had to go out and pay money for an OS. > > > > > > I may even have to give up on linux altogether. No sound, crappy video, > > > no opengl support. Can you say SIS Chipset? > > I'm just about ready to give up on Mandrake. First time it agressively > overwrote a windows dist, and this upgrade joke is even worse. > > For you, go RED HAT 7.2, as I have experience getting that working on a > SIS board with all built-in SIS stuff. The only thing not working is > accellerated video. > > My 8.0 to 8.1 "upgrade" lost half my prefs, now tries to mount a floppy > twice upon bootup, and renamed all my groups from 'users' to numbers, > which causes an error every time I bring up a terminal. > > Has *anybody* had ANY luck with this supposed upgrade? > > 30-35 packages failed to 'upgrade' without any explanation why, all on > disk2. > > Yesterday I had a perfectly functioning M8.0 dist, with working Xv and > Xine, today I have a crap M8.1 dist with holes, and Xine won't even run in > Xv mode. > > I'm disgusted as well, is there a M$ mole on the upgrade team?
You did backup your system before doing an OS upgrade... right?!?
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