Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> David Guntner wrote on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:04:17AM -0700 :
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> > Thanks to all for the helpful feedback regarding upgrade vs. clean install.
> > I'll check out the forum entries at mandrakeforum and (probably :) give
> > upgrade a try first.
>
> Make sure you allocate the time. It will probably be upwards of 2 hours
> depending on how many packages you have installed. It has to upgrade
> each one individually which is very time consuming and has a bit to do
> with your raw IO speed. If you have SCSI, it will be much faster than
> IDE (in general).
Thanks, Todd. Not to worry, though. I never do an update or clean install
unless I've got plenty of time to put into it.... :-)
--Dave
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