Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-28 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 1:45 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: I admire your persistence to save the home an' hearth ;) First, IMO, current 9.0 KDE3.0.2 is much better than any of the available 'KDE3.x' upgrades for 8.x. As is Gnome2, so why try'n save

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday July 28 2002 02:29 am, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 1:45 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: I admire your persistence to save the home an' hearth ;) First, IMO, current 9.0 KDE3.0.2 is much better than any of the available 'KDE3.x' upgrades for 8.x. As is Gnome2, so why

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-28 Thread Curtis H
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 08:29, Tom Brinkman wrote: In early June I saved a copy of 8.2's /home/tom to a storage partition and did a fresh install of 8.3/9.0 (the 6/6/02 'alpha' release). Immediately after the install, I copied the 8.2 /home backup into 9.0, which instantly broke the

[newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread jbarron201
I ask about the bugs in the beta then had to leave town for a few days but did have time to wonder since I,m useing 8.2 can I do a upgrade booting from the CD-ROM are is it better to do a clean install. JOE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread K. Spress Jr
] Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 11:02 AM Subject: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta I ask about the bugs in the beta then had to leave town for a few days but did have time to wonder since I,m useing 8.2 can I do a upgrade booting from the CD-ROM are is it better to do a clean install. JOE

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday July 27 2002 10:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ask about the bugs in the beta then had to leave town for a few days but did have time to wonder since I,m useing 8.2 can I do a upgrade booting from the CD-ROM are is it better to do a clean install. JOE A fresh install is

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: A fresh install is always the better option, often less time consumming and better results than a (theoretically maybe possible) upgrade. 'Sides, it's probly time to do some house cleanin

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday July 27 2002 02:14 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Cooker/9.0 is very dynamic now (ie, beta2 [current cooker] isn't compatible with 9.0beta1). Many gcc (- 3.2) and lib changes. I'd say only a fresh install is feasible. Further,