On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote:
> I dug this out of the archives because I thought my memory might be
> playing tricks on me....
>
> I have seen a number of errors reported here that I cannot reproduce
> running 6.1 from a clean install.
>
> I have begun wondering just how many of these are from people who were
> not aware of this advisory? In other words, have you found a 6.1 bug or
> an upgrade deficiency?
If you take a closer look, you'll see it was an upgrade, not an install.
I eventually did a 100% clean install (reformat and everything) and 6.1
has been working perfectly ever since. It was the *upgrade* that was
causing me problems.. install was perfect.
> Vincent Danen wrote:
> >
> > Sorry.. maybe this should be in Cassini mailing list? Not
> subscribed to
> > that, so I'll post here...
> >
> > Just upgraded to 6.1... thanx for your help, Axalon, with the
> hdd
> > install... it worked after much mucking around... =)
> >
> > My question is how accurate is the upgrade logging facilities?
> I printed
> > /tmp/upgrade.log and went thru it and compared it to a directory
> output of
> > the RPMS in Mandrake/RPMS on the Cassini install. According to
> that list,
> > there were 658 RPMS that were not upgraded. Now, I can
> understand that
> > not everything will be upgraded from 6.0->6.1, but that seemed
> excessive,
> > so I started to check things... My server machine still runs
> 6.0, so I
> > did some cross-checking also...
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > 6.0 = netscape-common-4.61stable-1mdk
> > 6.1 = netscape-common-4.61glibc2-1mdk
>
> We have already told the users that it was really better to
> reinstall
> everything instead of upgrading. For a clean, complete upgrade,
> you'll
> have to wait for Panoramix, in Mandrake 6.2 or more.
> --
> < Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
>
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