Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 17:21:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: Some more pre-2.0 input |
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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> Hi Peter! (clip) > > Ever tried reading Documentation/CHANGES, which is exactly what you're > > looking for? > Thank you, I have not, i surely will. > But my point is a little different: if somebody has a from-the-box 1.2.8 or 1.1.9 or 0.99.xx > system, what does he have to replace to run a 2.0.0 kernel? Probably everything... > My system at home ist a 1.2.13 pre-elf, and I guess i will more or less reformat it, if i do not > find an easier way. I think I won't upgrade package after package. > > > > > About whether or not to reformat, that will allways be up to you to > > deside. > No, it's not. Some systems make it really a good idea to - at least - > delete them (deltree c:\windows) before installing the new version. > Does a new installation really cope with _all_ old config scripts? > Does it overwrite them? Process them? Leave them untouched? move them to *.old? > Do you know when the (just as an example) lilo.conf script last changed > it's format? The network config scripts?
Lilo, PPPD etc. are not the linux kernel; they are userland, and when and how to deal with old configurations is _usually_ a distribution problem, and _almost_never_ a kernel problem; the exception of course is areas of kernel interaction.
I'm not disagreeing, but perhaps carry this on more effectively on linux-admin/debian-user/some-slackware-list etc? Even if everyone here agrees with you, is the kernel going to contain code to clean up /etc/ and convert old ppp config files??
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