Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1

[Erylon Hines]

On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> Rick:
> In reply to your second question, yes, 7.1 does have an upgrade option.
> I used it to move from 7.0 -- it took a long, long time -- hours as
> opposed to the 45 minutes or so that it took to install 7.0. Since there
> wasn't all that much non-distro stuff on the drive, it might have been a
> better idea to backup the data, clean the disk, install the newer
> Mandrake, configure and restore the data.
> -- Carroll
I agree with this.   The upgrade from mdk7.0 to mdk7.1 took 7 HOURS on my
machine, and its a PIII @ 733mhz with 128 meg of ram.  That is a loooooong time.

Eryl