Hi,

I have run MT for well over a year but am puzzled about the new Netinstall upgrade method. I have licences for 2.9 so can upgrade to the latest 2.x version (as I write this, 2.9.29). I can't do FTP as the 'licence' has expired but the new policy allows me to upgrade all 2.x versions now.

However the PC boxes I use only have CF to IDE adaptors in; they do NOT have either floppy, HDD or CD drives.

As I read the forums, the best method to upgrade is:

a) Pull the CF card out
b) Put in into a computer with a CF reader / writer. This is no problem as I have plenty.
c) Run NETINSTALL with the target as the CF card
d) ENSURE 'keep old settings' is checked
e) Replace the CF card touching plenty of wood and crossing all available fingers...

MY QUESTION - does this method just upgrade from (in my case) 2.9.26 to 2.9.29 and RETAIN both my settings and (most importantly) my licence key?

If not I can back up the settings and reinstall the key, which I have - but I would prefer not to..

Thanks all.

EDIT - I should add, I have just run NETINSTALL to a fresh spare CF and I have the 2.9.29 npk file and boot files on the CF card, so NETINSTALL seems to work ok.

BUT my question still remains - does NETINSTALL run in this way still keep the key on the CF and still keep the settings (does it read the CF first before installing either a totally fresh copy or just upgrading ?). I do not want to find out the hard way.........................

yes it does retain everything.

You were too quick for me, as you will see above I have run the install on a fresh CF card - and it works fine for me, but I assume it reads the CF card and checks for :

a) formatting (the program formatted to FAT and hung, but when run a second time it worked so the CF ideally needs to be formatted FIRST)
b) existing installation of MT software
c) existing KEY, software ID and setting

???

Many thanks again.

yes it does check all this stuff, and saves the config, then formats.

Thanks for all this.

Maybe someone will read this to satisfy themselves it is a good method to upgrade.

Cheers !

first try if it works for you

Fair enuf .... when I try I will hope to post the results !!

Cheers again..