On 03/23/2010 01:25 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:56 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> This is perhaps better accomplished by using a separate partition >> for your data and system. IOW, perhaps you should put /home, and >> perhaps /usr/local and /opt, on separate partitions. This is a good >> idea, anyway, because then if you have the room, you can have two >> "root" partitions, and upgrade/install on only one of them. If the >> new system has some problems, then you can revert which one you boot. > > That's not quite as easy as it sounds, because when you log in to a new > version of GNOME (and presumably KDE as well), it will alter the files > in your home directory in ways that may be incompatible with going back > to the old version. For that reason, I usually create a new user account > to log in as under the new OS until I am sure it is working correctly, > and only then log in with my normal account on the new OS. Which is another reason to back up your system. REGULARLY! If the defecation hits the impeller, you can restore. > These days, I have had very good luck with just doing an in-place > upgrade, so that's what I usually do now. That worked with no issues > when I went from F10 to F11, and again to go from F11 to F12. Provided the /boot partition was big enough, yes. The default disk partitioning left the /boot partition just a tad too small for many people to use yum to upgrade. Fedora is the sharp edge of development for Red Hat. You will get hurt by it eventually. With F12, you're dancing on the edge of a sword--but at least you have shoes on! With F13-beta and F14-rawhide, you're barefoot and the sword has been sharpened. :-p If your system is mission-critical or you need stability, you stick with RHEL or CentOS and recognize it'll be a bit stodgy, but pretty reliable. You won't have all the whiz bang toys, but it won't bite you (often or too hard). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Life: That which happens while you search for the remote control. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
