Hey Marcia.
First off. If you have a stable 7.2 going right now, I wouldn't rush
out and install 8.0 just yet. A lot of people have run into problems
with the install and boot of 8.0. I had two myself, but with my
experience I resolved the problem and everything is fine now. So if
your 7.2 install is still running nice and clean, stay with that for a
while. Wait for an update for 8.0 to come out or for 8.1.
As far as the install. I implore you not to do an upgrade! In all my
experience and experience of colleagues, upgrades are very BAD! I'm
talking about with Windows, with Linux, with UNIX, and with *choke*
MacOS. The install may go through fine in some instances, but with in a
week the machine needs a completely new install because of the damage
done!
You can keep your /home though. I've done that on numerous occasions
and had no problems. I have however done it twice where I did run into
problems with my shell. (Wouldn't read my .bashrc or .bash_profile each
time I tried to access a prompt. And I do A LOT of work on the
console.)
You could also back up some other data on the machine and restore that
later. I've either left the /home and backed up /var/spool/mail and
/var/www to another machine and restored that later. Or just uploaded
all the directories to another machine as well as my aliases file, my
.procmail info, fetchmail, and .muttrc.
But to perserve your sanity, and save you time, do not upgrade the
software.
In my hubris I tried to upgrade 7.1 to 7.2 and I'm still having
nightmares from that one! lol
Hope that helps, good luck Marcia.
tdh
T. Holmes
Unixtechs.org
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* marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010511 12:28]:
| Dear All, I have received my LM8 disks and I am getting excited about
| installing. I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Is it better to update or do a
| fresh install?
|
| Would I be able to do a fresh install in expert mode and preserve my
| home partition somehow?
|
| I have my 7.2 so fine tuned with alot of added programs. I have been
| backing up onto my zip disks however I realized it will take a long time
| to do because of everything that I have done. Does anyone have any
| suggestions? Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia
