On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 11:15, Chris Hellyar wrote: > 'urro.. > > Similar effect upgrading a 7.1 machine to 7.3, it upgraded KDE, and > installed gnome. > > Not a big deal, as for some things I prefer gnome anyway.. > > It did however break the xdm settings for my boot-rom machines which was > annoying, and put gdm back into prefdm.. >
That's why I never choose the 'upgrade' option -- goes for Windows as well as Linux. I usually backup my home and /etc directories, install from scratch and then set everything up as I like it again. Yes it takes longer, but I don't have to worry about fixing stuff broken by the upgrade and it removes the crud files that always seems to accumulate on a system like gunge under a refrigerator. I guess you could call it the 'spring clean' approach to upgrading :) Kerry.
