Al 29/11/12 20:01, En/na TJ ha escrit:

> 
> Reading of head-scratching problems like this are the reason that, in nearly 
> 11 years of using Linux, I never "upgrade" to a new release. I always do 
> clean installs, with the exception of telling the installer to leave my /home 
> partition alone. Believe me, I understand the desire to go the upgrade path, 
> and I know the developers work very hard to make it possible, but the risk of 
> problems is just too high for me. Clean installs have almost always worked 
> for me first time, every time.

Well, I'm stubborn enough to go always for the upgrade path. In fact, I don't 
do new installs even when I switch laptops (I just copy from the old disk to 
the new disk).
For new installs there's always windows ;-) (even though in the last few years 
linux has become more like windows, and I don't mean it in a positive way) and 
I had my fair share of problems with new installs too.
I'm pretty sure that if I managed to upgrade from mandriva to mageia 1 then 
from mageia 1 1 to mageia 2 things would have worked quite right.
Unfortunately the first step (mandriva->mageia 1) failed early on, and when I 
tried again I realized too late that urpmi had selected mageia 2.
Even so I managed to complete the upgrade, and I'm confident I can solve the 
few lingering problems when they arise.

Bye
-- 
Luca

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