[jcl]

tictoc5150, on Nov 22 2004, 04:49 AM, said:

why try to upgrade something, when a clean install is a fresh start....

Heh. I don't think I've ever intentionally wiped a system that was recoverable unless I was planning to replace it.

[tictoc5150]

jcl, on Nov 22 2004, 09:22 AM, said:

tictoc5150, on Nov 22 2004, 04:49 AM, said:

why try to upgrade something, when a clean install is a fresh start....

Heh. I don't think I've ever intentionally wiped a system that was recoverable unless I was planning to replace it.

ok, I think I stand corrected but could you elaborate...a clean install isn't the way to go with linux?...going from 9.1 to 10.1 isn't like going from win98 to xp?....lol...sorry, I know I'm still a bit windows minded ....don't mind me ...lol

[martymas]

hey tictoc5150

thanks ,ive had these mandrake disks since the days of techtv cfh and tss .so its been a frustrating time for me.
my worry is the stand alone, i aim to put mandrake on.
a 4.5 hdd and 64 megs of ram.and i wondered if this was enough resources .
tho i intend to icrease the ram once i am up and running.

back to knoppix
ive tried to access this cd for over 3 weeks.and it was going through the process of booting then i was getting an error screen .
i was trying to read the error message to send into the forum
then yesterday i inserted the disk i hadnt realised i was off line.
and bingo the knoppix home page came up.and i was in i cant tell you why this happened .ive tried several times and it lets me in off line .so i dont intend to push my luck.
do you think when on line xp aborts the knoppix access.

marty

[jcl]

tictoc5150, on Nov 22 2004, 08:02 AM, said:

ok, I think I stand corrected but could you elaborate...a clean install isn't the way to go with linux?

Not a correction, just a preference. It doesn't really matter how you upgrade the system. Lots of people reinstall and don't have any trouble. I try to avoid reinstalling whenever possible and don't have any trouble. Doesn't make any difference in the end.

Should say that the only systems I use are designed for incremental upgrading (*BSD, Gentoo, Debian) and the normal maintenances routine keep you up-to-date with the latest release. Doesn't make much sense to reinstall for each new release of Gentoo when

# emerge sync && emerge -Du world

will have the same effect.

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...going from 9.1 to 10.1 isn't like going from win98 to xp?

Hard to think of a Window analogy, but I'd say it's more like going from XP to XP SP2. Or maybe from W2k to XP.