On Friday 10 Jan 2003 8:09 pm, John Richard Smith 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? > > > >Anne > > It's pretty staight forward. > 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. >
I feel quite wimpish, but I'm not really clear about this. I thought lilo would be written automatically, with the test distro as just one of the entries. a) Are you saying this is too dangerous? b) Just what do you have to do to avoid it? > 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. Thanks Anne
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