> > I finally got arournd to trying to update Centos 4.1 to 4.3 via the > boot 'linux upgradeany' option. > > The first attempt hung the system with only 2 minutes left in the > update procedure (according to the displayed remaing time left). > > It was trying to upgrade Mozilla to the latest version. > > I then hard rebooted the system and tried again thinking that it might > start over where it left off (the Mozilla update). > > But no, it started the whole process over again. > This time however, everything completed and no system hangs occured > during the upgrade process. Have no idea why it hung the first time > around. > > There is plenty of disc space available on the mounted the partitions to do > what ever it needed to do (as in 60 GB). > > The thing i noticed though, was that everything in my ~Desktop folder > that have been set up previous was gone. > > Is this normal in an upgrade procedure with Centos? Not at all, but then what you did isn't considered 'normal' upgrade procedure. Is there a reason to not just run 'yum update' ? -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke