Re: Testing Daffy Duck

Michael R. Wilson wrote:
> jimw wagner wrote:
>
>>> Michael R. Wilson wrote:
>>> Just for curiosity: did you use the 'Upgrade Manager' option, the
>>> 'Live/Install' CD, or the 'Alternate Install' CD?
>>
>> I used the "slash and burn" Install. :-)
>>
>> In other words, using the disk so thoughtfully supplied by conrad, I
>> inadvertently wiped my whole drive.
>
> And that would have been ... the 'Live/Install' CD? I did post a
> warning on here about its known defectiveness, back on June 16.
>
No, it was the one Conrad so carefully labelled "Alternate Install."

The problem was that I'd gotten about four hours' sleep the night
before, and hazily answereed 'yes' when it asked if it shuld format all
40 gigs of the drive. No one to blame but myself.
>> Fortunately, all the stuff on my home and desktop had been previously
>> saved.
>
> With the luck of idiots, I managed to upgrade one machine from Badger
> to Duck and didn't lose a thing. On a second machine I tried the same
> tactic and ended up with a schizo Duck that remained convinced it was
> a Badger, and so had to be brain-wiped.
>
>> There were several things over on the Windows side that I'm lacking,
>> but in general, I'm completely Windowsless.
>
> Was your lost setup dual-boot, or Wine?
Dual-boot. But I'd been using the Windows side for a long time simply
for extra storage. I don't think I'm likely to miss it badly, save for
a place to open foreign dictionary data-bases, then save the contendts
to OpenOffice, or the like.

JimW
Received on Fri Jun 30 22:36:17 2006