On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:43:47PM +0200, Marton Fabo wrote:
> >>Is it OK to boot a 1.5.2 i386 machine off the 1.6 installation floppies, 
> >>and do an "upgrade" as offered by sysinst, or should I install from 
> >
> >
> >Yes, it should work
> 
> Will it preserve configuration settings, like /etc contents, cron job 
> tables, package database and such? I just want to avoid restoring those 
> from backups, if possible...

package database will be preserved. You should copy crontabs. /etc will be
boved to /etc.old

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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