Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent (downgrade) on the other side.
How in the world is this FOSS stuff going to make critical mass in the desktop arena if, when at release 9.1 in 2003 I find myself in the situation where : I had 9.0 and a working dual boot system which seemed to go painlessly and smoothly on my compaq evo N880v, albeit with display behaviour problems I believe I had three file systems in my Linux partition, although I can't remember or find out what they were I bought the 9.1 mandrake update I clicked on upgrade It wanted me to specify what my file systems were and the mount points (it should have been able to easilty work this out) I told it about my / File system It then FRUSTRATINGLY asked me all the qeustions I had already told it about my machine in the install of 9.0, only this time it said I dodn't have the room for the machine to be everything I wanted it to be, with games, and mutlitmedia etc, all I had room for were one window manager and office and internet client. Wow ! Talk about progress. So it merruily installed asking me for the second CD and then asking me for the international CD ! If I didn;t have this CD it told me to click cancel. It should have knwon that I dodn;t have the international CD, after all I am doing an upgrade with the 3 CD's of Mandrake 9.1. Other upgrades you buy always have all of the right media with them. By now my fingers are crossed hard hoping that it aint going to wipe out my windows partition with all my stuff on it. Re start time, after some worrying confusing questions about lilo and where it was going to place it. Didn't get these questions when I installed 9.0 . Myabe upgrading is trickier than installing from scratch. Hell, I wouldn't know. Ok so it boots ok in windows. Relax Ron. Can breathe now. Lets boot in Linux. Oh joy of joys !! My deskop is empty of all the stuff I had before. The glidepad mouse doesn;t work and I find that I can't get to my other file systems because the keyboard won;t respond in the mandrake control center !! I really like this upgrade stuff. Give me back my old Holden ! I hope that my other file systems are intact, and all I have to do is : 1) create two directories under / called shite1 and shite2 2) somehow mount the other two file systems at shite1 and shite2 3) find out which shite is really my old /home and my old /usr or whatever they were 4) rename everything and remount old file systems as shite1 and shite2 or home and usr 5) whatever 6) whatever But how the .... am I going to do this without an effing glidepad to get into the control centre. Do I now need to go and hire a unix sysadmin to fix my stupid laptop, or just my stupid linux. Stupid ! Stupid ! Stupid ! Should have stayed on 9.0. And they say debian is harder than this ! I just want it to work so I can tell others it does ! Now I wait, hoping that there is a simple solution ! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
