Hello Laura and others, I generally don't upgrade but replace the Linux, what I recommend, is that you have the /home dir on a different partition as that will be the only only partition that that you would select not to be formated during install, as that will be the partition that you will have all your work on.. The just a couple of things to watch out for with this idea, is be careful to check user ids, and group ids after the install.. they may may need to be changed on the users home dir.. as when placing the users back into the machine.. they could have ended up on a different id.. After I had replaced my 8.1 to 8.2 I had to delete my ~/.gnome ~/.gconf ~/.gnome_private and a couple other dot dirs out of my home dir to get the gnome to perform probably.
Cheers Mark On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 00:47, Laura Conrad wrote: > > I was hoping when I upgraded to 8.2 from 8.1 that the process would > have gotten more painless than it was the last time I tried it. > > It may be better than it used to be (at least things booted with no > hassle), but I've still been working most of the last two days on > things that don't work any more. Here's what I can remember doing; I > may well be forgetting things that were minor for me but might be real > hassles for someone with a different experience of LINUX: > > When I configured the mouse, this time there was an option to > say there was a wheel, which I have. I took this, and the > mouse configuration was completely unusable until I finally > managed to boot without X and run the mouse configuration > program. > > For some reason the upgrade program didn't recognize my > downloaded disks, so nothing that's on the ext and supp disks > got upgraded, unless I specifically asked for it. This is > probably why I haven't had to fiddle with xemacs the way I > have on the last two upgrades. I think urpmi also wasn't > recognizing the disks, so I added them as new sources. > > The pysol version shipped is incompatible with the python > version shipped, so I had to download the pysol that works > with python 2.2 from the pysol site. > > The Group that sends the mail for the mailman mailing lists > had changed to a gid that isn't defined. So I had to > reconfigure mailman. I think this is probably a bug. > > I had to put back the apache commonhttpd.conf from 8.1, as I > couldn't make the one with 8.2 work for my system, and I can't > find any documentation of what changed. > > On the plus side, I do seem to be able to print out of the box on my > HP Laserjet 5000, without the giant black vertical lines and the wrong > paper size messages I got on 8.1. > > Is there any chance that this kind of thing could be documented > somewhere? I know there's this list, but it's a pretty high-volume > list, and I don't always find searching the mandrake.com site really > helpful. > > If there's some documentation of this sort that I've missed, could it > be pointed to more prominently? > > -- > Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) > (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 > 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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