Actually, until recently I've been a Mandrake user, and I can't say bad
things of it - the Installation program is great, and it lets you configure
almost everything before the system boots the first time. if you want to
update a mandrake system, it will load and keep all of your configuration
(assuming it was done the 'legitimate' way, using /etc/sysconfig) and you
shouldn't have any problems. normally I would recomend whole heartedly that
you update to 7.1 , but considering that 7.2 should be out any minute now (I
thought they're waiting for KDE2, but apparently they seem to be waiting for
2.4 ..), I'd say that if your happy with your system as it is, wait longer
:-)
Oded
..
young spring morning
sun arises bronze over new grass
puppy runs floppy drinking dew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shlomi Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: upgrading Mandrake
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm thinking of upgrading my Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1 (or maybe waiting for
7.2),
> > but I've heard too many **horror** stories about the upgrade process
destroying
> > various settings - network, menu preferences, etc. In the past, when I
> > moved from RedHat to Mandrake, I'd decided that it didn't really matter
and
> > I started from scratch. But now that I've got my system set up more or
less
> > as I want it, .....
> >
> > Aside from the obvious need to back-up everything, how safe
> > is the upgrade?
> >
>
> Hmmpf.
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.1 from scratch several times, and I have quite some
> bad stories about the installation program. It is very buggy, and I heard
> a review which said the same thing.
>
> Better wait for 7.2, if you ask me, but I can't testify for its quality.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
> > TIA
> >
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> > Date: 28-Oct-2000 Time: 19:13:14
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