On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Sean....may I share with you a short description of my
> approach to running new versions of Linux-Mandrake that I
> believe saves me from the kind of frustration that you are
> experiencing?
>
> I'm running my computer on 7.1, but my 7.0 installation still
> exists on the same hard drive as 7.1 is on and if something
> happens, even something cataclysmic, with my 7.1 installation
> I can immediately boot up on my old 7.0 installation and
> continue where I left off a month ago.
>
> When I installed 7.1 I did a new install on fresh partitions,
> not an upgrade over my old 7.0 installation. Then, after
> testing out the new 7.1 installation, I copied my 7.0 /home
> and /root directories to the 7.1 file system and reinstalled
> any extra software that still didn't work (/user & /opt stuff
> mainly).
>
> After that I began to use the new 7.1 installation daily and
> abandoned the old 7.0 installation. But it's still there in
> case I need it and I'll leave it there till I erase the
> partitions and install 7.2 in its place.
>
> It took me a couple of hours to get 7.1 up to speed with my
> personal stuff, but at any time, if a problem would have
> occurred I could have simply gone back to my intact 7.0
> system. I've been doing it this way (with some refinements)
> since version 5.2. I've never done an upgrade (too many
> horror stories).
You could always spawn a copy of your distro with dd and 'experiment'
on that copy..
(But I still have a copy of SuSE6.1 (which I didn't upgrade from
my SuSE5.3 install) and RedHat 6.0 running as well, very handy when some stuff
doesn't wants to compile etc.. just love locatedb, just hack/copy/steal & go..
;-)
>
> Alan
>
>
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> [snip]
> [snip]
> > Sorry for attitude, but for the last few days I've been seriously wishing
> > I just kept my Mandrake 7.0 installation.. MDK 7.0 was the best, and 7.1 is
> > really not impressing me. Again, sorry. I'll try and calm down a bit next
> > time... :) Not your guys' fault, I know.
> >
> > Sean Middleditch
Cheers,
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