On Tuesday 04 January 2011 17:30:33 S C Rigler wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > You didn't mention Fedora. I speak from experience, particularly from > upgrading FC8, and by "catastophic" I mean a failure that forces you to > scrap all efforts to complete the upgrade process and resort to a clean > installation. Usually the failure happens after you've wasted a > significant amount of time and is so frustrating that you will swear off > ever upgrading a Fedora release again especially if it is for more than 2 > major releases. FC8 has been end of life for 2 years and a lot has changed > since then so expect problems. Well, there is a reason I haven't yet looked at redhat/fedora :-) All kidding aside: I do know people having problems with ubuntu-upgrades. But strangely enough I didn't encounter these. And I do crazy stuff like running half the upgrade, then stop, then continue the upgrade after reboot. Or removing the graphic boot-process plymouth from a headless system with no graphics card and only serial terminal and network. It certainly helps when you know a bit about linux. And you learn the most when determining the cause of problems during upgrades. The one thing that keeps you from learning about problems is when you re- install your system for every small or big problem. There are only very few problems that can be solved by a new install: Switching distributions like from fedora->ubuntu. Have fun, Arnold
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