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Authored by: veshman on Oct 23, '03 07:31:01PM

How are people planning on installing Panther? Clean or Update?

If clean, what is the best way to save old emails and such?

Bhavesh



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Authored by: baltwo on Oct 23, '03 10:58:30PM

I beta tested Panther and Archive & Install, preserving Users and network settings, was the most common installation process used by the testers.



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Authored by: dafuser on Oct 24, '03 12:28:37AM

Clean install

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LaterDafuser



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Authored by: airdrummer on Oct 24, '03 11:37:39AM

got my delivery last night(only took 1 day in shipping, not 2;-) & did a clean/archive install, preserving users and network settings, on my 366mHz/576mB/10gB grape clamshell...it went smoothly, even preserved my home dir ln to another (os9)partition:-)

it does seem to be somewhat snappier w/pulldowns, etc, haven't had time to try much, but i'm a happy camper:-)



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oh, 1 thing...
Authored by: airdrummer on Oct 24, '03 11:53:50AM

i did notice was that multiple nfs mounts on the same server (such as nfs://myLinuxBox/home & nfs://myLinuxBox/bigDisk) are now labeled "home" & "bigDisk", not myLinuxBox & myLinuxBox-1:-)



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Authored by: adrick42 on Oct 24, '03 11:50:14AM
Archive & install, just because I don't want to spend 8 hours re-installing all my apps....
Macromedia suite, Office suite, Adobe suite... etc
It just takes so long I don't think it would be worth it.

Does anyone here know of any (validated) reasons to do a clean install?

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cd ~/ ; %20out

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Authored by: lanej0 on Oct 24, '03 05:37:02PM

Not sure what you consider validated, but just to share my experience using 7B85 (the last build). Doing an upgrade install hooped some of the preferences in my home directory. A bunch of applications were acting funny after the upgrade. Re-creating the user directory fixed the majority of the problems, but to this day, I still can't print on either the office or home printer. It gives me an "empty print file" error.



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