On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:11, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Possible in many/most cases but certainly not advisable. If you're using > LVM then just forget about it, other things can be fixed manually if you > really want to waste time doing what anaconda would do for you. > I did a dist-upgrade with Synaptic to see what would happen, and it seems that it would remove quite a few packages. Does Anaconda also remove packages when doing an upgrade. > > My big concern is the new file naming conventions for the X.org release of > > X Windows. I think the config file for X would have to be regenerated. > > That and various other things ... A basic IDE box is likely to *boot* > quite happily after such an upgrade but you'll have plenty of tinkering > to do afterwards. Just as I thought. I may go the CD-R upgrade route. Thanks! :D --Brian
