Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of Brian > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Update help please > > > Hello I am the one who started this post and after getting some feedback > here are my thoughts: > > First off I would like to thank everyone for their help,one of the > strengths of linux is the friendly support from other users. > > Now the not so good. > > I have been using Debian for a year and after getting a new hard drive I > thought I would give Mandrake a try as I heard alot of good things about > it. The install was easy, setup all my hardware (even my Logitech web > cam) and runs very smooth. Everything was going good then I tried to > update to 8.2 and wanted to know if I can update it over the net. My the > net and not cd? I have a cable modem so downloading is not a big deal > and I do not have a cd burner so making ISO disks all the time will not > work.The answers that I have seen so far about updating have to do about > a fresh install. To me this seems like alot of work to keep your system > updated.The other way is to update individual packages until the whole > system is updated, again seems like alot of work. In Debian all I have > to do is 'apt-get update' and the system is updated for me. No need for > boot disks or reinstalling the whole system. > > This is not meant to be a knock against Mandrake, I think for the most > part it is very good,but for people with no linux experience updating it > will prove a challenge. Once again I thank all those who have replied to > my question. > > Brian >
Brian, you haven't been reading my posts, or else we are having a continuing problem communicating. The INSTALLER (called DrakX) will update you as well as make a fresh install and it does work over the network. I explained how to get it for 8.2 (the one for 8.1 will look at the wrong dependency list). That is your primary update tool over the web; however, I should point out that despite volunteer mirrors allowing several thousand simultaneous users, little to nothing has been available this week as it has been literally choked. I suggest downloading and burning CDs if you have the capability, because these are volunteer mirrors and they don't always set all the permissions correctly, which can abort the update at an inconvenient point. Plus you are looking at about triple the task for updating Mandrake over updating Debian unless you have added a lot of packages to the Debian default install. Civileme
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