hahahaha well i was hoping to take the easy way out!lol! yep i am not surprised about that! so what is your favorite program that you are now getting with 8.0? thanks randy On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > When I originally updated from 7.1 to 8.0, I removed my > original packages, and installed 8.0. The result was a speriously and porrly functioning system. A couple days ago I reinstalled 8.0 from scratch, and it's all good now. > So, my advise would be to backup your configuration and other files you need, reformat, and reinstall from scratch. > Greg > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:31:39PM +0000, randy turner wrote: > > > > > > hi all, > > i will be upgrading from slackware 7.1 to 8.0 > > is it best for me to format all of the old stuff off > > then install from scratch? > > thanks in advance > > randy > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >