i had some odd thngs too when doing what you have just done On Tuesday 20 Nov 2001 4:15 pm, you wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I upgraded my LM 80 (it was installed using > Power Pack edition.) machine to LM 81. I did it using > the "Download Edition". > > After upgrading I got the following problems:
if you right click on the icon, choose properties you will be able to choose an icon, i found that the old ones were available and set them up again > > 1. Two of my icons have dissapeared from desktop but I > can still see the text for these icons. These are > Mandrake's icons. > > 2. If I want to access my Zip drive I receive a > message saying that: > "The drive is closed and I don't have enough access > rights." > don't know anout zip drives but it is possible to be restricted as root because root has to follow permissions as well, it's just that nothing can stop root from changing permissions that it doesn't like! > The only problem with this message is that I was loged > as root and I am wondering how can be possible to be > restricted if I am root ? > > 3. Before upgrading the bash shell displayed nicely > the directory into which I was (using the terminal, > text mode). Now I get this: > "bash-2.05#" > without of course dysplaying the path where I am > currently working. i was lazy, instead of learning the syntax for the .bashrc file in my home directory, i copied over the one from /root, that worked a treat > I suppose some config files were overwritten during > install, but I don't know "Which". > > Regarding this situation I would like to mention that > I don't understand "Why" when upgrading a system these > files are overwritten. That's not normal. i'd hesitate to say what was :-) > bascule
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