>I did this last night to ensure I was up to date and it was a pain. Is there
>a file somewhere that tells you all the things that are going to break when
>this is done? Here are some of the things that broke:
It sounds like your experience was even worse than mine. I upgraded one
desktop box and all went well, as far as I could tell. So, I upgraded my
two laptop machines ... the one I carry around and an older one that I keep
in the lounge room for surfing the net in ad breaks. Of course, neither of
those upgrades was anywhere near as easy.
The main issue I came across was that for some reason the upgrade didn't
seem to take into account that I had separate /usr partitions on each of
those machines, so it kept telling me I needed a heap more disk space on
/. I ended up having to do a brand new install ... without needing to
repartition or change what items I wanted to have installed! .... after
backing up any precious data. That was very, very annoying.
Overall, though, after getting the machines back up and running I'm fairly
happy with 7.0. For example, I can now use my USB mouse, which was
probably possible with 6.2, except that it would have required patching and
mucking around.
My systems tend to be pretty simple, because all I use them for is hacking
code, so I never hit the apache, squid, pppd etc, problems you had. I'd
probably be totally bald by this point if I had :-).
Hope it all works out in the end.
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