On Friday 05 April 2002 14:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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).
well, amir gave up on mandrake, and switched to RH 7.2 ;) so i donno who relevant is that advise. the truth is that the upgrade went well, but i saw to many memory leaks and bad performance. on top of that, kde3 did not install properly. i am now with RH, and very happy with it (thanks, hetz) its up to you. if you want to stick with MDK, i think upgrading will work for you (depends how complicated your current system is of course) tal. > > 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 > //------------------------- -- -------------------------------------- Amir Tal, System Administrator Whatsup - Linux related news And support - in hebrew ! icq : 15748705 http://www.whatsup.org.il -------------------------------------- ================================================================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]
