Hello,
I have few suggestions to make regarding the install procedure, more precisley about the Upgrade feature in LM Last week I upgraded from LM80 to LM81. Previously my system was loaded from LM80 Power Pack. The upgrade was made using the "Download Edition" of LM81 Now comes my questions and also my suggestions: I booted from cdrom drive and I choused to upgrade. The install program told me that I must wait until builds the list of programs to be upgraded. That step went fine. But now comes a step which confused me a little bit: After the list was built, the usual dialog which displays which programs I should "Install" (Internet Workstation, Office Workstation, etc.) was on my screen. At the bottom of my screen shortly was explained my choices in the following way: "If I chouse not to select any of the choices from the above dialog already described the program will just Upgrade according with the list he build, but: "I can select any of the configurations presented on the dialog (already described)." That confused me: I think this dialog should not be displayed as long I am "Upgrading my system". It supposed that the upgrade procedure already knows what to upgrade and don't make any sense to let this window be displayed. Personally I choused to click on all configurations described by this dialog, supposing that the so called "Upgrade procedure" will not only upgrade but also will install those rpms according with my choices made on this dialog. It is exaclty what happened. I ended up not only upgrading but also installing another 2 Gygabyte of software. That made me nervous. In my opinion you should change the upgrade procedure. You have two choices: 1. You build the list with the applications to be upgraded and automatically upgrade. 2. Build a list with basic things which are mandatory to be upgraded and let the user to chouse what he wants to upgrade from that point on. Another question will be: "Can I un-upgrade (if I can say so), meaning to go back to LM80 ?" If this option is possible I think you should include it in your install procedure. Another issue is related to Lilo entries after upgrading. The lilo now displays the old links which were under LM80 with the prefix "old". If those links in lilo don't point to the old LM80 imho these links should be deleted after upgrading operation is finished. Best regards, Alex __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1
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