Ok, many thanks to Pixel for helping me straighten out my 0x85/0x05 partition problem. I completed an upgrade of a nearly stock 6.1 install using the cd available from CheapBytes (ISO 1, I believe). I have not yet had time to copy the CD to the hard drive and rsync. I selected the Custom/development install options. I must wonder at the length of time it spends preparing to upgrade. the 6.0-6.1 upgrade took only approx. 25 minutes with an old 8x cd, but this took nearly as much time just to start installing rpms. It is, however a minor irritation. During the install, I had it ignore my previous X settings (I have an onboard CL5446 which is disabled in BIOS and a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI in slot 1). Previous Mandrake releases always continued to detect the 5446, both during install and on subsequent Xconfigurator/XF86Setup sessions. This, I am happy to say is no longer happening (at least on install). I haven't yet played much with the system, but on the first boot, I noticed that it was now starting daemons that were not started before, and which I have no need/use for. These were, in particular, NIS and postfix. Also, the install should not default to launching both postfix and sendmail as having postfix loaded causes sendmail to abort on start. An additional difficulty arose when I attempted to boot into Windows (from which I still do most email, news, and recreation). It seems that the /etc/lilo.conf (attached) written during install remapped my IDE interface leaving me without the ability to boot into Win. Removing the map lines corrected the situation. I did appreciate the fact that unlike previous upgrades (6.0-6.1), my previous kernel was retained and provided by default as a boot option in lilo. Well, that's all for the moment, I'll upgrade to the latest packages soon, and see where to start. ~Anton
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