I got two answers to my question about updating from MDK 8.1 to 8.2. Amir wrote (to the list) that everything worked for him, and Amichai wrote me (off the list) that he had problems. So I'm still looking for more opinions before I **take the dive**. As I wrote before, I've had **very bad** experiences with the MDK upgrade and thought maybe upgrading individual packages would be safer (but much more time consming).
On 31-Mar-2002 Amir Tal wrote: > 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. > > On 04-Apr-2002 Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi Shlomo, > > I also had the same problem. I am always affraid to take the step and move up > a version... > > I recently upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 and now I can't grab sound and images > with XawTV, as I could before. Anyidead why? > snip .... snip ... snip ... details about 4 other problems > > Other than that - all GTK apps look and work better than before. > > Can anyone help? > > -----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: 05-Apr-2002 Time: 13:01:19 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]
