> > I remember that someone once said in this list that installing Corel > and then upgrading wouldn't work well... > Mmmm, I think it depends on what you want to do. When I bought my current Desktop, an Atlon 700, I couldn't install from the Slink CD, bucause the kernel with it (2.0.36) was too old. So I installed from a Corel Network Edition I found on a magazine, then removed ALL non-standard Debian packages (Corel KDE & File Manager etc...), then completed the install from slink CD. A few weeks after, I was able to upgrade to Potato over the Net ( about three hours at 56 Kb :-( ) . It could be that I still have fragments of Corel here and there. OTHA, I got a nice boot manager ( Anybody knows if it is possible to change the initial splash screen ? I think the file is /boot/splash.lilo, but in which formatù it is ? ).
Of course, if I had wanted to keep some of the Corel special packages with Potato, I would have been disappointed. Again, it depends. Not sure if the saved download time is worthing the extra configuration hassle, though. Ciao -- FB
