On Thursday 01 September 2005 12:19, Simon Roberts wrote:
Fair enough, so it's not just me then.
This time, I booted the install CD, went to the Ctrl-Alt-F2 screen which has a root prompt and did:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hde1 bs=1GB count=150
to each drive. Hopefully it'll all come out clean this time!
Cheers, Simon
Hi Simon, I don't think it's meant to be this way. I had no problems installing 9.0 over 8.2. Likewise, 9.2 over 9.0 (I skipped 9.1). But the last time, with 9.3 over 9.2, I experienced the exact same symptom of old data being read and 'creeping into' the current configuration. Between that, and a few other issues (hardware specific), I ended up reinstalling several times to get it right. The outcome is great, so the effort was worth it, but it certainly had me scratching my head that day. regards, - Carl