ok First mistake "don't use update"
Just do a fresh install and don't format /home. Create a user account that matches your old account ie john then login as root after the install then typo chown -R john /home/john then just login as john per normal and you have all your old user settings and files. If you run update your asking for headaches..it doesn't work on windows and it wont work on Linux for the same reasons no one can double check everything to that degree. Also the update often takes 2-3 hours normal install will take you 1hr Regards Richard Neal loooooooooooong time Mandrake users On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 17:38, John Gibbons wrote: > Hello to everyone knowing anything at all about Linux, which excludes > me. > > I have just tried to upgrade from Mandrake 9.1 to version 10. > > 9.1 loaded itself with only intuitional input from me and was > trouble-free for this beginner. Trying to start up in the upgrade > to 10 for the first time I got: > > "The BackSpace key sends:" followed by an acute sign then ? > followed by the blinking cursor. > > Can some kind soul tell me what I am supposed to type in? > > John. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
