Thanks for the tip. No I havent backed it up. No point. I've spent so much time tinkering with the OS I haven't actually found a use for the computer. Played a few games of freeciv. Cant play tuxracer, opengl not supported. Ive upgraded the kernel, and lots of other things. I even managed to pound xfree86-4.1x into it. Cant use it though. When I go to change the display properties it still only lets me choose between xfree 3.3.6 and 4.0.3. My scanner is not supported and sound will not work. To get my computer to run well under linux I need an new video card (SiS = bad), sound card (crystal audio codec is an unknown device), Scanner (Mag = twain only) and a new monitor (VeiwSonic 15es has the wrong refresh rate ???) So far this free software has cost me $60. I'm not worried about reformating, I've already done it 5 times.
Apparently Mandrake does not yet support upgrading to kde222. They have some use at your own risk info http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1418&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 On November 29, 2001 03:52 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:17, you wrote: > > 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?!? > > It is best not to use upgrade on the installation disks when going from a > lower distribution to a newer one. The best thing to do is an expert > install and know before hand the partition you have on your disk as /home. > i.e. /home is hda6 on my hard drive. Then when you make the change from one > such as 7.2 to 8.1 use the same partitions and do not reformat /home when > it indicates what partitions will be formatted. If the /home partition is > yellow click on it to make it no color and then let the install format the > other partitions. You then have all your old info like bookmarks and > address book but a new OS on the machine. Even this is not 100% > satisfactory but it is better than totally reformatting and starting from > scratch. The other way is to make a seperate partition as a back up for > /home and call it say /backhome and then reformat everything but backhome. > You can then go into backhome and get your lbookmarks etc and place them in > home and voila a whole new world. HTH ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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