Re: [newbie] Stale Information Left Over From Previous Installations

2002-01-06 Thread Randy Kramer
Erylon, Thanks for your response! Erylon wrote: > The only comment I have is that I haven't experienced those problems, but > then, my installations tend to be pretty much trouble-free after I have them > setup, so, as they say, "ymmv". As far as the SIS card goes--that's weird, > because I've

Re: [newbie] Stale Information Left Over From Previous Installations

2002-01-06 Thread Randy Kramer
Joe, Thanks for your reply! Joseph Braddock wrote: > Assuming you told the installer to format the partitions after you > re-assigned the names, it should have done just that. Yes, but my understanding of a Linux format is that it is very fast, and my assumption is that it is very fast it bec

Re: [newbie] Stale Information Left Over From Previous Installations

2002-01-05 Thread Erylon
On Saturday 05 January 2002 08:38, you wrote: > > > On the next try, I changed all the partitions except /boot from Reiser > to jfs (/boot is ext2). This time the install worked (well, reasonably > well -- I must remember not to test the SiS 630 video during the install > -- testing it causes pro

Re: [newbie] Stale Information Left Over From Previous Installations

2002-01-05 Thread Tom
On Saturday 05 January 2002 10:38 am, Randy Kramer wrote: > My theory is that if you install (I don't mean upgrade) Linux on top > of an existing installation, the new installation does not totally > wipe out the previous installation, and, under the right > circumstances, if you had problems wit

Re: [newbie] Stale Information Left Over From Previous Installations

2002-01-05 Thread Joseph Braddock
Assuming you told the installer to format the partitions after you re-assigned the names, it should have done just that. If what you were having problems with related to configuration files in your home directory, then when you logged in, you would have received the same home directory and co