On Saturday 04 May 2002 3:43 pm, Heather Reed wrote: > And a big Hi to Femme :-)) I have been offline for ages thanks to a > surprise change in protocols by my ISP :-(( Back now though :-)) I > got 2 of the 3 CDs for mandrake 8.2 on a linux mag this month - is it > worth upgrading (from 8.1)? And am i right in assuming that its back > to square 1 if I do upgrade, with a complete ditch of all the hard > work I put in on installing the bits and pieces for 8.1? There are > one or two things that aren't playing ball, so just wondering if 8.2 > will be better - mainly I'm having trouble with cups and printing. > This has probably been done to death already, so sorry if I am late > off the mark and have missed lots. Also, I don't have the 3rd CD - > how much do I need it? Heather
You can do an 'upgrade packages' on booting from the first 8.2 CD which, presumably, will detect and keep all relevant 8.1 settings. (I didn't do it myself so can't comment on how well it does - I went from XP to 8.2 :) Having the third CD depends on what you install; I did a fairly minimalistic install (only KDE and Gnome in the right-hand column of the package list, which you'll see on installing) and reading from it took up only about 20 or 30 seconds of the 12 minutes the install took. It would probably be worth getting it as, a long time ago, I did a Mandrake install with one of the CDs missing and it never worked properly thereafter ... It may well fix CUPS etcetera; this is the first time I've ever experienced a Linux setup with a _desktop_ printer that works :) Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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