<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Timothy Murphy wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid200312192307.33886.tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie"> <pre wrap="">On Friday 19 December 2003 18:42, Ghod wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">and installing Linux on a machine without CD-ROM or Floppy.. now THAT must have been a real jewel.. hope it never crashes.. since you would never be able to install ANYTHING back on it. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> If you're referring to me, the laptop has been running Linux for 2 years. It does "crash" or "hang" occasionally -- it just hung tonight when I compiled and installed 2.6.0 -- I suspect I compiled it for Pentium rather than Crusoe -- in any case I just re-booted into 2.4.23, re-compiled 2.6.0 and am running it now. I always keep several kernels available. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe these disasters you think of are not very likely to occur.</pre> </blockquote> OR.. your not doing an UPGRADE.. but rebuilding a kernel. an upgrade (using the menus) does NOT give you that option to keep existing instanaces of linux and most newb's will make that mistake. I'm not questioning YOUR ability to work with linux.. this WAS a newb question and I gave newb advice. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid200312192307.33886.tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>