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Re: upgrading Mandrake
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 solomon@barak-online.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of upgrading my Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1 (or maybe waiting for 7.2),
> but I've heard too many **horror** stories about the upgrade process destroying
> various settings - network, menu preferences, etc. In the past, when I
> moved from RedHat to Mandrake, I'd decided that it didn't really matter and
> I started from scratch. But now that I've got my system set up more or less
> as I want it, .....
>
> Aside from the obvious need to back-up everything, how safe
> is the upgrade?
>
Hmmpf.
I installed Mandrake 7.1 from scratch several times, and I have quite some
bad stories about the installation program. It is very buggy, and I heard
a review which said the same thing.
Better wait for 7.2, if you ask me, but I can't testify for its quality.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> TIA
>
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> Date: 28-Oct-2000 Time: 19:13:14
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