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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:16:14 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: installation diskettes

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Peter Skye wrote:

>Ray, a question: Can you install UpdateCD over an existing system such
>as the one I have, sort of like installing a fixpak? Or does UpdateCD
>require a "clean" system like eCs does?
>
UPDATECD is an updated Warp 4 installation CD. As part of the process
you also make installation floppies. Do with it whatever you would do
with the original W4 CD. There, that is the short answer.

But, are you sure you want to. My experience with fancy GUI OSs is the
big problems are not things that are missing, rather it is trash and
mistakes that they accumulate. Steven claims he can install OS/2 and
run it for years, I have not been able to. Yea, maybe if I put the
screws in the cover and locked them, but what fun would that be.

I am guessing that eCs says install to a clean partition not because it
must but because Kim has no way of dealing with whatever trash you might
already have there. The whole reason for installing new over old seems
to be to save the desktop that you have spent six months fiddling with.
The desktop is our video game and very little of the effort produces any
productive benefit.

If you only allow the boot partition to contain things put there by the
OS installation, and put all apps and utilities on other drives, a clean
install consists mostly of moving and creating some objects and maybe
copying a few files that you saved. The total effort is often less than
trying to clean out the old installation, and will probably function better.

Ray

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