On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:13:21AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 23:03, ZephyrQ wrote: > > I just read a review of the latest Libranet--and after playing with > > Debian for about 6 months, I'm half tempted to 'add-on' this > > distribution. > > > > My question, can I upgrade to the latest Libranet over my existing > > Woody (3.0 with a little bit of testing thrown in...) with out seriously > > hosing my system? > > > > I originally switched to Deb from SuSE, and I hate to admit it, but I > > just don't have the time to peruse online documentation trying to fix > > small problems. Don't get me wrong--I like Debian a *lot* better than > > SuSE (things work together better), but I'm tired of taking the better > > part of a weekend trying to fix problems or configure my system to do > > things that, darn it, I would like it to do (like burn CDs...play DVDs, > > etc.). > > > > Will an upgrade with Libranet over my existing system be a Bad Idea, or > > can I pull this off without a lot of hassle? > > As long as /home is on a separate partition, installing shouldn't be > a problem. It also does very well at h/w detection, as long as you > don't have a winmodem. As does Debian if you use the 'discover' package...I'm fairly sure that's what libranet uses, anyway. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: David John Oates Ruby Ridge Indigo South Africa
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