I know where you're coming from. However, take the advice of someone who's been there, done that, got the tee shirt. *** DON'T DO IT ***. The more you've customized your system, the worse it is. I broke my system upgrading to RH9, and spent a week fixing it. I finally gave up, did a clean re-install, added back the enhancements I wanted, and only lost a day or so. earl On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 07:56, Dylan Parry wrote: > I am currently using FC1 and am downloading the ISOs for FC2 as I type! > Every time I have upgraded my OS (RH7.3 > RH8.0 > RH9 > FC1) I have > performed a clean install, but this time I cannot risk losing all my > settings etc. So my question is, if I perform an upgrade rather than a > clean install will I lose all the settings and things I have spent so long > making? > > In particular will my XF86Config file be overwritten and will any programs > I have installed that are not part of FC be lost during the process? > > -- > Dylan Parry > http://www.webpageworkshop.co.uk - FREE Web tutorials and references >