On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:40:24 -0800, Raul Acevedo wrote > I do very much the same thing: save everything in /etc, /root and /home > to a separate drive that is untouched by the upgrade, then do a full > install, formatting all partitions except /home. I only do this on > major x.0 releases; for x.y releases I just upgrade. > > It works very well. It's nice because it keeps my system from > accumulating too much cruft, which I've known to cause problems in > the past when you update across several releases. Of course, that does not really help all the applications one has installed that are in /var or /usr (such as chkrootkit, spamassassin, wormscan, www apps, and so on). Might as well start from scratch. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
