Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Please consider the pro even if you only get the update box (no bookx) It will save greif later. Simplest approach is to use a second drive and store your /home there in tar gz format. borrow one from a friend if you must.
Thanks for your reply. Of course, the pro version will do. But unlike with past versions, the personal version is not the same price as the pro-upgrade. In fact, the pro-upgrade is twice as expensive as the personal version. That makes it worth to figure whether the personal version might do the job as well. So, my actual question remains, is it possible to install old compilers from my 8.0 pro-upgrade cd's on a system with 9.1 personal installed. If not, is there another way to make the personal version compile stuff? Thanks as well for your tip on storing on a second drive. It might be something to consider, though I'll have to figure out how to do it. If it is just as much work as getting the cd-writer to write, I'd just as well do that. Thanks anyway, Vinay