On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a laptop running fc11, with the non-boot partition encrypted LUKS. Based > on one bad experience with another system, and one fail with a VM, just booting > the DVD and asking it to upgrade is not the way to a working system. While I can > certainly backup /home and reinstall, there are a fair number of tweaks and I'd > rather not. > > Any thoughts? A few weeks ago I upgraded a system from f11 to f14 - given the upgrade three times with tweaks vs the clean install and tweaks options I felt the latter would be less time intensive - so I made backups of /home and all the key areas of /var and /etc and did a new install - then did the tweaks after the install and copied back user areas from backup - the new system was running about two and a half hours after the install - and I am convinced it would have been a great deal longer trying to upgrade through f12, f13 and on to f14 - with a major jump through three versions I think the clean install is the better option but ultimately the decision is yours! (Actually even when upgrading from one version to the next I do this same clean install approach and I have not been bitten by major problems as a result - even with copying and saving imap files as well as other user data - though I have seen quite a few people fall into problems doing pre-upgrade/upgrades rather than the clean install method if the help postings on this list are anything to go by!) -- mike c -- 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
