On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:17, Paul wrote:
> > Upgrading 7.2 to 8.0 is not really a recommended exercise, despite
> > it being an installation option. This is because there have been
> > many changes made between 7.2 and 8.0, so an upgrade is quite
> > likely to break something. Upgrading also takes far longer, since
> > your system must be analysed to see *how* it can be upgraded --
> > something that doesn't need to be done with a clean installation.
>
> I can vouch for that. I tried to upgrade 7.1 to 7.2 and that already
> was a horror trip. A reinstall is much better. And 7.x to 8.0 is
> even more recommendable to do a full new install. That's what I did.
> Make sure you have all your files in a safe place, take note of the
> things you installed since you installed Linux, and set them up
> again afterwards. Formatting / and /usr is the least you need to do
> when "upgrading", which then will account for a new install. A good
> thing too is to have backups of your /var and /etc files, a lot of
> info is stored there.
> I hope Mandrake stops making dir structure changes soon, to make a
> proper upgrade feasible again. When going from 6 to 7 it was quite
> easy. Paul
The Linux Standards Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) appears to be
nearing completion. Once that is done, hopefullly all distros will
conform to this, and the GNU/Linux world will be a happier place :-)
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
