On Thursday 14 November 2002 12:29 pm, Peter Nixon wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:14:04 -0500
Squire Patrick uttered the following:
On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:02 am, Harry G wrote:
I have had 8.1 upgrade version sitting here for a month, and I know a fresh install is usually best, but to reinstall all my data and packages again will be very time consuming, and I have a business to run, so can an upgrade be done smoothly? What bug-a -boos should I watch out for?
TIA
Harry G
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Harry, I had a very good upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 here. I had to do some tweaking later of some files that got replaced, but it has been minor stuff. I did do complete backups of important data first though, just in case and would advise you to do the same. If everything is good and solid in your 8.0 setup, then 8.1 should be as well. Take baby steps and be sure of your selections in the installer, ask if not sure, but I think you will or should be ok for an upgrade.
I know several here have had problems or machines crashing, but I think that might be due to a kernel error that Mantel is searching out now. Thing is that it seems to only happen with certain hardware, not all, as I have had no such problems with any of his kernels.
I could not find a way to do an upgrade when Installing from FTP. Is this possible? It tells you in the side bar that an upgrade will take a long time etc etc, but it only actually gives you the option for new install, or boot installed system... ===================
Peter, No, I never deal with the ftp, I always get the "real" thing! ;o) I purchased the update package to do my upgrade, I never depend on the ftp for doing something like this. I like to have what I need available to me should problems arise. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206