True, after burning a cd with all the data needed for a backup, a new install is about 1 hour at the most, unlike windows (been there done that) so it's a lot less problematic to simply do a clean install. Cheers, Herman On Sunday 24 November 2002 6:15 am, Keith Winston wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 11:46, antonio montagnani wrote: > > I have just tried to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0 but the procedure > > stopped after checking dependencies and informed us that there was > > error (I apologize for not taking note of which error...) and that > > was aborted and that I could safely reboot my machine. > > > > In the text upgrade, I got the message that some file was missing > > (common lib or something like this). > > > > Any other simmilar experience with upgrade?? > > I have never had a satisfactory upgrade experience from any version > of any OS to any other version. I've had upgrades that mostly work, > but there is always cruft from the previous one hanging around that > eventually causes me problems. I've found this to be true in Linux > and Windows. I always back up my data, do a clean install, then > restore my data. > > Best Regards, > Keith -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
