Upgrade from Mandrake 9.1 to 10.1

[Matt Cahill]

On October 3, 2004 03:53 pm, Clive DaSilva wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I do not have enough space to create another
> partition for the 10.1 install, along with my original 9.1 partition, so
> it looks like clean install (wipe the drive first).
>
> Thanks
>
> Clive

Clive,

  Some context (being an ex-Mandrake user):  if you choose to upgrade vs. 
clean install, you may inherit some widespread bugginess in certain apps that 
have gone through major changes since 9.1 (particularly KDE and it's 
minions).  If you were going from 10 -> 10.1, I'd say just upgrade, but as 
you're using 9.1 you may actually be making life easier by simply doing a 
clean install.  Remember to back up your /home and any configuration files 
you may have manually tweaked elsewhere, regardless of whatever option you 
pick.

  If you're going to do a clean install, I'd suggest allowing Mandrake to 
put /home on a separate partition.  That way, you can do a clean install for 
another version or distro without necessarily wiping out your personal stuff.

 <imho> Personally, I'd wait until 10.1 goes gold (or at least Release 
Candidate)...Mandrake is not known for their bug-free pre-releases. </imho>

-- 
Matt Cahill
            m dash cahill at rogers dot com
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