On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 22:07, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/26/2003 10:18 AM, Mike wrote:
Is there any "conventional wisdom" regarding upgrades of installed systems from 8.2 to 9.0? Better to wipe and start again, or does the upgrade process work well?
I have done 2 upgrades, the first was 7.3 to 8.0 here at home, and it weny very well. The second was just last weekend, 8.0 to 8.2 on the server at work. I went very carefully on this one, as it has been upgraded a lot, was running a lot of services, running software RAID 1, several users, etc. Trying to make sure I didn't make any careless errors, reading things very carefully, and it also worked very well. It dealt with some third party packages, etc., allowing me quite a bit of control in the process, and even left my kernel alone (since I had already installed the latest 8.2 kernel while it was still 8.0). It was quite a bit of work, but much less than it would have been to get back to where it was with 8.0. I wouldn't hesitate to do an upgrade again, but only if the amount of configuring would make it worth it. A fresh install is very nice to 'clean up the system', but the time it takes to tweak a lot of new programs made the upgrade for me a time-saver, and I am very pleased with the results. YMMV. I have NO experience with 9.0 yet. ;-)
As I understanf it, a "fresh" install replaces virtually everything but leaves the /home directories alone so that your data is saved. Is that a correct assumption? Don Henson