twice i have simply booted with the cds, and choosen upgrade. KDE generally get pretty messed up for me that way. once i simply formatted everything but /home and installed. again KDE went wild, but less so. i have _not_ yet tried any method with 8.2 as i can't get it yet.
all you guys stop downloading so i can, ok? ;-) On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:52, Seedkum Aladeem opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > Ok Shane. How did the upgrade go and how did you go about doing it? I may > follow your foot steps; so try not to make me fall in hole. > > I have downloaded the three 8.2 iso files. How can I mount them on my > directory tree? I looked up the man page for mount and I am not any > wiser. I would need to go into the images if I were to do a fresh install > wouldn't I? I would at least need to put hd.img on a floppy wouldn't I? > > Thanks, > > Seedkum > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 07:43 am, shane wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:35, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency > > and > > > > transmitted: > > > *smiles & giggles* He said "snap" & "upgrade" in the same sentence! > > > :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. > > > > i have to admit, that is my only problem with mandrake, though it > > effects all distros i have tried. a fresh install _always_ works > > better than upgrading........ > > > > i am considering upgrading with 8.2 (both the test machine with 8.2 rc1 > > on it as well as the 8.1 machine) just to see how much damage i can do. > > ;-) -- One of the surest signs of intelligent in outer space is that it hasn't contacted us yet. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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