Submitted 01-Aug-00 by Gilbert Baron:
> I tried both ways. OBVIOUSLY I am not going to use FDISK or DISK DRAKE on a
> functional system with WIN2000 because it will destroy it.
That was a bug in the original 7.0 installer. It is not applicable to 7.1
> Even if it could do it non-destructively it would not matter. it does not
> allow you to get that far, it does not give the option, it just says it
> can't find any place to even TRY to construct a system, so that option is
> out.
Because maybe you have already filled the space it wants to use with invalid
file systems?
> AGAIN WHY doesn't anyone listen IT DOES WORK for Version 7 THEREFORE it has
> REGRESSED. THAT is the complaint and there is no answer forthcoming.
One does not follow the other. Changes in the ext2 file system over the
past year have created situations like the fact that for six months tomsrtbt
(one of the best Linux rescue disks) was unable to mount partitions
formatted under Mandrake 7.0.
Assuming that because the older works and the newer doesn't means
regression is backwards thinking. Has it occurred to you that more than
half the subscribers to this list installed 7.1 without difficulty and many
of us were actively involved in testing it.
You yell at us with "it does not work" and such. This is a peer support
mailing list. If you want help, you must:
1) Define your problem clearly, including all error messages from all
virtual consoles during the install.
2) Treat those you would have help you civilly. We are doing this to share
our knowledge, not get berated.
3) Remember that a lack of an answer does not mean you have been ignored.
It means that nobody _has_ an answer for you. If we all answered every
email we didn't have a solution for with "I don't know," you'd know we
weren't ignoring it and you'd have thousands of useless emails eating up
bandwidth.
4) As another poster has pointed out, you need to evaluate your reasons for
the upgrade. Do any of your reasons require a reinstall, or can you update
your packages in situ? The only reason I can think of to destroy an
existing (and functional) file system with a reinstall would be a change in
file systems. Anything else can be upgraded without going to that extreme.
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