Hi Peter, Depends on who you ask. Bill Acker prefers to backup all pertinant data then do a fresh install. Nothing wrong with this other that it requires a few extra steps and a working knowledge of where everything resides. Myself, I use the upgrade feature that comes with RH. I have not had a problem with it yet. Although being more than a little paranoid I tend to backup pertinant data before attempting the upgrade. I myself am going to go to the beta as soon as it gets uploaded to my server ( winks at Bill ). I will copy my /home, /etc, /usr/local, and /usr/src directories to another location. Boot the incredibly helpful talking iso's and perform the upgrade. If it should happen to screw up my system at least I have a way to recover. Hope this helps. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Peter M. Konka [mailto:pmk5485@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:06 AM To: Speakup Subject: Being able to upgrade linux in the future Hey everyone, If i were to install the 7.2 beta version of linux, When it is released, is it easy to upgrade to the relase of 7.2 or would I have to reinstall linux frfom scrach?. Also, if someone would e able to answer this, what is the difference between 7.1 and 7.2 versions of linux?. Thanks... ---Peter Konka _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
