On Wednesday 27 March 2002 08:29 pm, you wrote: > I have been watching the messages but have not noticed a post about > someone using the upgrade option with Mandrake 8.2. > > I am running LM8.1, evolution galeon, and KDE on a Duron 800MHZ with > 256MB ram and a 56k modem. > > Has anyone tried it and what were the results. > > Roly It did work for me but left a bunch of legacy stuff on the desk top that were broken links and some of the taskbar icons had to be reinstalled, I ended up just going and doing an install and not reformatting /home so that all my info was saved. Still had some broken stuff so I saved all of /home/dennis to a partition I had labeled /object and then did a clean install by formatting everything but /object. Once the OS was back up I just moved what I wanted from the old /home/dennis to the new one and still have the old stuff saved that I didn't need to move just yet. So I guess what I am saying is that the second best way to upgrade is to do an install and not reformat /home while the best way is to save your good stuff to a different directory and do a clean install on the whole shebang. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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