i just upgraded to 7.1 everything went fine with two exceptions. for some reason downloading of the security tools failed part way through, and I was left with 64M of ram even though I told the installer I had 256M. anyhow, I was just sorting out the network, installing the downloading+security packages and putting the append mem=256M in the lilo.conf when x/linux or whatever started paging memory and ground to a halt. after a few attempts to change terminals I ended up telnetting in and rebooting. (since I wanted to do a reboot to get my memory back). I logged back in as root to check everything was ok and I had no desktop, and the menu items didn't work. I could still open display properties and execute commands. I checked to see if /root existed and that was ok. the desktop for my normal logon still fine. any clues?
