[K12OSN] upgrade or fresh install?

Julius Szelagiewicz julius at turtle.com
Mon Mar 28 20:12:17 UTC 2005


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> This isn't an answer, just some semi-related anectdotal info: My primary
> server at home
> is k12 3.1, and I recently installed 4.2 on another box and then NFS
> mounted /home from
> the old box onto the new box, after creating identical IDs on the new box.
>  When I
> connect to the 4.2 server with a client and choose the Gnome desktop
> (default) I get an
> error messaging saying things have changed in Gnome and it doesn't like
> the
> configuration of my .gnome-desktop directory, says it will create a new
> one while saving
> the old one, but then I get only part of the Gnome desktop, no task bar,
> etc.  I have
> not seen a similar problem with IceWM (nor with KDE, I think although I
> can't recall
> with certainty).  So, watch your step if you restore the ~/ directories to
> the new system.
>
> Petre
>
> Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
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>> Dear Folks,
>>  what will work better - upgrade of a k12 3.1 server (dist-upgraded to
>> the
>> gills) or a fresh install of 4.2.1 and restoring /home and stuff in
>> /etc?
>>  thanks, julius

Petre,
 this is precisely the kind of thing I was afraid of. I'll can only hope
that upgrade would take care of things. julius


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