i used the upgrade feature from 8.1 to 8.2 and it worked great. cant say anything about older versions, since i never tried to upgrade before. in this case, everything workied and nothing got lost.
tal. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: updating from MDK 8.1 to MDK 8.2 Hi, My previous updates to new versions of Mandrake have always been problematical or even diasasterous. The MDK installation is great, but for some reason, at least in 7.2, 8.0 and 8.1, the upgrade has always caused me problems - loss of personalized settings in many programs, loss of sound, unrecognized hardware (that worked OK before), etc. On one occasion (I think it was 8.0) I ended up deleting everything and re-intalling - lucky I had backups and was able to later restore most of my personal stuff :-). But this is just too much of a hassle. So my question is, does it make sense to just update RPMs individually from the 8.2 CDs on my 8.1 system rather than doing a **re-install** or **update**? With the exception of the kernel, this should work, but I'd like to hear opinions. BTW - I never got Mandrake Update to work properly. Since I have an ADSL connection, this might have been a good choice. //------------------------- Shlomo Solomon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Date: 31-Mar-2002 Time: 08:34:57 Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 8.1 machine //------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
