-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/21/2011 09:06 PM, Fedora User wrote: > I cannot believe that we are at F16. I clearly recall RH9 to FC-1. > But I digress. I know that others have said this in the past. I > just thought that I would reinforce the notion that clean installs > remove a large number of annoying problems that persist through > upgrades. Moreover, it is refreshing to start with a clean desktop; > something that has become a palette for the way we think and do > things. > > It has been awhile and I was unaware of the many advances that > developers have made in installation. It has never been this easy, > intuitive and fast. > > I was in a Walgreens the other day and picked up a bunch of Sony > DVD's for 40 cents each. There was a time when burning a DVD > through Linux was a considerable challenge. Now it is routine --- > and cheap. The perfect excuse for backing up the accumulated bytes; > It makes you think what you really want to retain. Then wiping the > HD clean. I probably do things a bit differently from most. I mount /home off an NFS server (in my case, a RHEL 5 machine). I have several kickstart definitions available, and in %post I create my user account and define my mount for /home. For me, setting up a clean install is trivial, and I wouldn't do it any other way. It might take a couple of tries to get the kickstart Just Right(TM), but it's well worth it. If I need to run RHEL 5, I kickstart it - same home directory. If I need RHEL 6, same story, as is Fedora. I have done preupgrade a number of times and it's never been as easy and clean as just nuking my box and doing a fresh install. Preupgrade has generally gone well enough, but since I go through distros like some people go through soft drinks, I find it infinitely easier to just run "dmesg > /dev/sda; sync; echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger" and I'm up with a new install in ~ 15-20 minutes with updates. Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk70yBUACgkQmzle50YHwaDbGwCeJKOkk6IpMVz4vuc5WEQOZQ+T RMAAoMyPgYA9iHTVH22zGKWAlf/1p1Dg =HOiK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
