Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Marc, From my experience those are very common hardware errors. My machine at work did the same thing when I tried to install Mdk7.2 while 7.1 installed flawlessly each time. It doesn't surprise me that 8.0beta us doing this since the hardware specs are probably even tighter in this one then

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-16 Thread Rog
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:43:19 -0500, you wrote: Marc, From my experience those are very common hardware errors. My machine at work did the same thing when I tried to install Mdk7.2 while 7.1 installed flawlessly each time. It doesn't surprise me that 8.0beta us doing this since the hardware

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Weaver
Scott, I wouldn't think this would be the case with 8.0 since this version contains the filesystem changes that 7.2 does, which is why there were problems upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 as opposed to doing a fresh install. They made a few changes in the 7.2 version to where some things were located

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-15 Thread Marc
I installed it from scratch. Or I should say, I made the effort. But installation failed over and over again. I downloaded the two ISO images from Mandrake 8 beta1 but with installation of the packages I got several interrupt at instalation stating: "Some important packages could not be

[expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-14 Thread Scott Patten
I'm sorry if this has been addressed on the list already. I have not seen it and have not been able to find it in the archives. I know that in the past there have been issues with upgrading from one release to another. I want to know if this is again the case with 8.0. I have a box running