That has not happened with previous upgrades, may be something new in 9.0. On my laptop, I did an upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 and it's been fine. It is also running a 2.4.23-pre8 kernel I built under 8.2. If you back up your critical files or like I did here, backed everything (/) up using rsync to one of my other boxes, then did an upgrade without having to use anything from the backup. I was a bit worried when it started removing some of my packages, but the only one I had to reinstall was netscape-4.8, but all configs, /home, /root remained intact. Regards Sid. I rarely go for an upgrade, but I like to maintain my /usr/local and /home. In the past, I had use Partition Magic to build the partition
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Sid Boyce