-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 January 2003 12:05 pm, H.J.Bathoorn scribbled incoherently: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 14:48, Azrael wrote: > > I don't have the space to run 9.1b1 as well as 9. > > > > I don't need an incredibly stable os for daily use.. heck.. so is it > > possible to upgrade 9.0 to 9.1b1 > > Or do I need a clean install. > > If I do a clean install, any problems keeping my current /home > > partition? > > > > thanks > > I've just upgraded a 9.0 with 9.1b1 as I had 9.0 installed twice anyway. > > I've found some hitches but overall everything works fine, even the shared > /home and /var partitions with other distribs and versions. > > The main hitch at the first boot was my geforce video card. The Nvidia > drivers weren't there anymore (which was to be expected) so I had to run > XFdrake again to mend that. > > Overall it seems to be working OK. > A word of warning though: During install after choosing the groups of > packages to update, there's no going back. > If you click "previous" it goes on to install anyway. So choose well (or > all) I forgot to select Gnome that's why I wanted to go back:o( > > Skipping lilo installation apparently isn't possible and the lilo it > installs has all the old entries (like win4lin, old-linux, etc.) but they > all pointed to the same hd partition:o( > > So keep a copy of your /boot directory and of /etc/lilo.conf. That way > you'll know what the entries looked like and where they were pointing. > > Good luck, > HarM
hey Harm! at least you got buttons to click on at that point! :) No buttons showed up on that panel during the intall, which necessitated me starting the install all over and choosing "all" in order to get it going. The next place I got stuck was shortly after configuring X. I wasn't able to move on no matter what I did. Just took the chance on restarting the system and I was able to boot the system. Most, if not all, of the important things were finished though. And, it didn't want to make a bootdisk so I had to take care of that the "old-fashioned" way. I'm grateful for that though because now I'll have that squirreled away for a rainy day should the need arise. - -- Mark - ----------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IbpJJuZ1geTzHgERAvXCAJ9M4U4XBjH63aJ6LkyCutAJBulx4QCeLjhr +Cxt/H4IrFusYw0/IpTZEDg= =VAI3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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