Kerry Baker wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">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.
