Ok Folks, I take the risk and will try it out. I will do an update on a Dell Inspiron 8200 Notebook. I update from 8.2 to 9.0. I have some third party software installed as well. There were already some conflicts in the dependencies. I tried to solve them all. Some I just ignored. Now we will see how well the beta testing went ;-) If you do not hear from me my Notebook exploded ;-) Cheers, Ulrich
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:45 am, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
Ok Folks,
I take the risk and will try it out. I will do an update on a Dell Inspiron 8200 Notebook.
I update from 8.2 to 9.0.
I have some third party software installed as well. There were already some conflicts in the dependencies. I tried to solve them all. Some I just ignored.
Now we will see how well the beta testing went ;-)
If you do not hear from me my Notebook exploded ;-)
Cheers, Ulrich
I hope it goes well for you because there is no 'return' from a botched upgrade. I'll never do an upgrade again. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 10/16/03 11:53 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar."
On Thursday 16 October 2003 15:54, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I hope it goes well for you because there is no 'return' from a botched upgrade
If one clones ones system to another partition, using tar like this :- tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) then one could 'upgrade' , say, using APT on that cloned experimental system. So, if it gets in a mess, one still has ones original system, OK -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Thursday 16 October 2003 12:07 pm, pinto wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2003 15:54, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I hope it goes well for you because there is no 'return' from a botched upgrade
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If one clones ones system to another partition, using tar like this :-
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
then one could 'upgrade' , say, using APT on that cloned experimental system.
So, if it gets in a mess, one still has ones original system, OK
Any kind of backup is better than none. But if you have the space, I'd recommend a fresh install and keep your old one intact. 1) It's safer. 2) You might get a better running system (minor incompatibilities do occur on upgrades) 3) You get rid of a lot of garbage.. (read: software you may no longer want) 4) You may miss some configuring for new features) 5) YOU LEARN A LOT! (by reconfiguring and checking everything and cleaning house) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 10/16/03 12:16 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." - Oscar Wilde
The 03.10.16 at 11:54, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I hope it goes well for you because there is no 'return' from a botched upgrade. I'll never do an upgrade again.
Oh, yes, there is: restore from backup. Or, if update goes wrong, then install fresh: the data is safe in the backup, anyway... I have done updates, some have gone fully wrong, and I will do updates again. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
You're a brave person, Ulrich. Good luck. Don Henson On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:45, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
Ok Folks,
I take the risk and will try it out. I will do an update on a Dell Inspiron 8200 Notebook.
I update from 8.2 to 9.0.
I have some third party software installed as well. There were already some conflicts in the dependencies. I tried to solve them all. Some I just ignored.
Now we will see how well the beta testing went ;-)
If you do not hear from me my Notebook exploded ;-)
Cheers, Ulrich
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