Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 update ?

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Bernard Victor wrote: I had Mandrake 7.2 running and working pretty well, but got a copy of 8.2 and decided to update. However I found I had lost a lot of my settings. I no longer had read/write access to my Windows partition except as root. Wine would not work, and the Wine conf file seemed

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 update ?

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Viron
Even better would be to place the /home partition on a completely separate drive from the system drive (on the off chance that your system drive goes bad). Of course, if you don't have a second drive available, then the suggestion below is perfectly fine in most cases. Most servers I've set up

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 update ?

2002-09-06 Thread Bernard Victor
I had Mandrake 7.2 running and working pretty well, but got a copy of 8.2 and decided to update. However I found I had lost a lot of my settings. I no longer had read/write access to my Windows partition except as root. Wine would not work, and the Wine conf file seemed to have been moved, so my