Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 5:03 pm, et wrote:It's pretty staight forward.
On Friday 10 January 2003 11:39 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:and for those of us who have never done anything like this before - some guidance please. I propose to get rid of 8.2, keeping 9.0 and install a test distro to the newly empty partition. Is that right?
Take note: LM91 beta 1 is now out on some mirrors. Now is the time toOK what mirrors?
start testing YOUR hardware and configurations. It's a prime
opportunity for you to make 9.1 friendly to your own personal hardware,
and in so doing a real world killer distro. Please read the following
repost from Sascha Noyes concerning
Anne
The only thing I would caution you with is about
is installing lilo.
The new OS will expect you to overwrite your old lilo and adopt it's
lilo.conf , but since it's only a test OS , you don't really want it
to do that , so I personnally don't install lilo at all on the test OS
install, but I do make a boot floppy, just in case.
Then boot to M9.0 Desktop and use it's lilo install and lilo.conf
to make your entries for booting M9.1, and this has
the added advantage that if you messup it's easy
to remake the entries, your not temparily locked out.
So just run the M9.1 discs in the usual way and format the
old M8.2 partition and install everything.
The only other matter is the residue files and folders
left in /boot partition from the old M8.2 OS, these have to
be removed manually , best done after the install is over
from dektop , but make copies , just in case, you never know, after
an hour or so of looking at install files and folders it is
not difficult to delete the wrong ones. So just copy them to
say /root directory or spare partition, sensible to do this before you start.
John
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