On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
There is also the option of "live update" (there is such a script on the installation CD IIRC) > > BTW - I never got Mandrake Update to work properly. Since I have an ADSL > connection, this might have been a good choice. Does live_update use the same mechanism? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
