Re: [newbie] installation problems

[Stephen F. Bosch]

Dean Gentry wrote:
> 
> I went from susie to mandrake and it was hell.  I lost everything and
> started over.  Once i started over everything went fine, but all of may data
> was lost.  Upgrading was impossible for me.  Personally, I don't think you
> will find much of a solution here.

I should note that Mandrake, strictly speaking, should only be used to
upgrade *Mandrake*. I'm not surprised your system exploded.

-Stephen-

PS: It helps if you keep your personal data on a separate /home
partition, that makes upgrading a lot safer and a lot more painless.