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From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 22:27 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] "Upgrade??" to LM7.1
| Here's what I'd do. Install a small linux-on-dos distro on
| your Windoze partition, and use it to mount your 'regular' linux
| root dir (/) and rescue the files you need to save. Another way
| would be to install 'explore2fs' under Windows and use it to get the
| files you need to save, and move them to a Windoze directory.
Tom, Thanks. I previously saved my backup files to windows ( that's
about the only smart thing I did) and can access them through mc.
That's how I reloaded my X11 and X11R6 directories which now won't work.
|
| Then you can put boot from your Mdk CD and try an upgrade, but
| you might have to do a re-install.
Unless someone can help soon it looks like a reinstall. If that happens
I will try LM7.1 one last time and attempt to load the XF86 4.0 I got
from the XF site because I had that working with LM7.0. I think the
version with LM7.1 is suspect and I have already found a bug in
xf86config.
|
| I live dangerously and install 'cooker' rpms all the time, but
| I've found it's not to good an idea to install things which are
| gonna mess with a lot of library/system binary files. You end up
| with miss-matches, and a very unstable system. Like you I tried
| XF-4, and also KDE2 on 7.0, ended up doing a re-install as I
| outlined above. My saving grace is when I switched from RH to
| Mandrake, I installed PhatLinux (back when it was Mandrake 6.0)
| under Windows to preview Mandrake. Needless to say I've found it
| quite handy for fixin what I manage to screw up in my 'regular'
| Mandrake. I also backup all my important or personal files to a
| windoze directory now as a regular practice ;->
Me too. Ironic, isn't it? I'm really trying to give windows up.
Regards and thanks again.|
