On Tuesday 04 January 2011 15:25:08 S C Rigler wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And a tip once you upgrade lanas: buy a new harddrive and do a fresh > > install. > > You can even keep the old one and set up the bootloader to dual-boot your > > old system if you feel like you need to experiment with the new system > > first. > > > > I second this, especially when upgrading from something as old Fedora 8. > > IIRC, the upgrade process takes significantly longer than a fresh install > would and the chances of catastrophic failure are pretty high (as in > "certain"). While I do encounter the odd failure in updates every now and then, the number of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero with SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system to upgrade while working with another where much better used then the hours spent setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to re-create my needed working environment. My advice: If there is a supported upgrade-path for your distribution, use it. Have fun, Arnold (*) My only data-loss was from gentoo to ubuntu where I tried to be smarter then some system-tools, messed around with the partition-table and fucked up big time. Thanks to backups and version-control-systems only un-important mail was lost. And some time after I deleted direct copies of the disk-space concerned I learned about testdisk which would have helped in that case too...
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